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CHRONOLOGICAL 

PREPARED BY 

Prof. A. F. TOWNSEND, A. M, 

Waterloo, Iowa, 

FOR 

S. S. ASSEMBLY 

OF THE 

NORTH-WEST. 

Clear Lake, - Iowa, 

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DEDICATION. 



TO REV. J. R. BERRY, 

Corresponding Secretary of the First and Second Sunday- 
School Assemblies of the North West, to whom more 
than to any other, is credit due for the success which has 
attended these great gatherings of Sunday-School work- 
ers ; in recollection of pleasant associations in Christian 
labor, this volume is respectfully dedicated by the 

Author. 



A. S. Kissell & Co., Printers, 196 and 198 Clark St. Chicago. 



PREFACE. 



. The contents of this little book are presented to the 
Sunday-School workers of the North-west with the earnest 
desire that good may be accomplished. The materials 
were collected from a rich programme which was per- 
formed at the Second Sunday-School Assembly of the 
North-west, held at the well known and beautiful Western 
watering-place, Clear Lake, Iowa. 

In conformity with quite a general desire on the part of 
those present at the assembly, we departed from our plan of 
arranging the matter under appropriate heads, and give it 
in the form of a journal with just enough of the proceed- 
ings of each day to keep up the connection. This gives a 
consecutive view of the " Assembly." For the conveni- 
ence of pastors, parents, Bible students, Sunday-School and 
Temperance workers a copious index refers to the outlines, 
valuable suggestions, hints, diagrams, methods and plans 
which will materially assist not only in practical work, but 
also serve as seed-thoughts that may germinate in fertile 
brains and produce original methods even better than any- 
thing suggested. 

Dyersville, Iowa, Sept. n, 1877. 



contp;nts. 



I.— CLEAR LAKE. page. 

i. Location, History of, Town, &c xvii 

2. Business xxi 

3. Camp-Meeting and Excursion Grounds. . . . xxiii 

II.— SECOND SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSEMBLY 
OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

1. Officers, Speakers, and Teachers vii 

2. First Day. 

1. Opening Ceremonies .... 1 

3. Second Day. 

1. Heroic Elements of Hebrew Character — Lec- 

ture 3 

2. Hash — Lecture . 4 

3. Voices from the Rocks — Lecture 7 

4. Third Day. 

1. The Bible in the Rocks — Lecture 11 

2. The Assaults of some Men of Science upon 

Religion — Lecture , 15 



Vlll CONTENTS. 

PAGE. 

3. Questions and Answers — Prof. A. Winchell, 

LL.D 17 

4. A Union of Forces for Christian Work — Y. 

M. C. A 20 

5. Cottage Presentation 21 

5. Fourth Day. 

1. Third Chautauqua Lesson 23 

2. Definitions by Rev. E. Corwin, D.D 24 

3. The Aggressive Spirit of the Christian 

Church, and what Young Men may do. . 24 

4. Third Session of Christian Congress .27 

5. Bunyan's Holy War — -Lecture 28 

6. Fifth Day. 

1. Model Sunday-School 30 

2. Model Programme 32 

3. Model Secretary's Report 32 

4. The Reformatory Force of Christianity — 

Sermon 34 

5. Sermon on 2 Chron. 17: 16 37 

6. Layman's Meeting 39 

7. Closing Session of the Christian Congress ... 40 

7. Sixth Day. 

1. What I Saw on three Continents — Lecture . . 43 

2. Organization of the Sabbath-school 43 

3. The Catacombs of Rome — Lecture 44 

8. Seventh Day. 

1. The Bible a Divine Book 47 

2. The Far East — Lecture 49 



CONTENTS. IX 

PAGE. 

3. Unruly Boys — Address 54 

4. Christ the Model Teacher 55 

5. All Sorts of Questions about Sunday-schools. 

Answered by M. C. Hazard 56 

9. Eighth Day. 

1. The English Bible 60 

2. Memory — Its Feats and Freaks — Lecture.. 64 

3. The Perils of the Republic 67 

4. Sabbath-school Classification 69 

5. The Labor, Rest and Reward of the Believer 70 

6. Harmony between Science and Religion — 

Lecture 71 

10. Ninth Day. 

1. General Review 73 

2. That Boy's Sister — Lecture 76 

3. Children's Concert 77 

11. Tenth Day. 

1. Bible History and Chronology 78 

2. Our Work — Address 80 

3. Christian Citizenship, its Obligations and 

Relations to the Temperance Cause 81 

4. The Superintendent's Office and Work 83 

5. Service of Temperance Consecration 83 

6. That Boy — Lecture 84 

12. Eleventh Day. 

1. Bible History and Chronology — Adam to 

Joseph 85 



X CONTENTS. 

PAGE. 

2. Christian Temperance Work — Short Ad- 

dresses 86 

3. The Teacher's Office and Work 88 

4. Model Teacher's Meeting 89 

5. Relation of Intemperance to Crime- Address 90 

6. Achievements of the Telescope — Lecture. . 92 

13. Twelfth Day. 

1. Second Model Sunday-school 97 

2. Model Programme 99 

3. Model Secretary's Report 99 

4. The Great Mission of the Believer as an 

Instrument in Saving Sinners — Sermon. . 101 

5. Immortality of the Soul — Sermon .... . 106 

6. Song and Praise Meeting 108 

7. Faith — Its Nature, Processes and Power — 

Sermon „ no 

14. Thirteenth Day. 

1. Bible History and Chronology — Joseph to 

St. John.... 112 

2. Did the Worlds build Themselves? — Lec- 

ture 113 

3. Normal Class Conversation 116 

4. The Week. day Work of the Superintendent. 1 17 

5. Christ our Exemplar — Bible and Song Ser- 

vice 118 

6. Sunday-school Machinery 119 

7. Questions on Sunday-school Work — An- 

swered by Prof. A. F. Townsend and 
Rev. J. R. Berry 120 



CONTENTS. XI 

PAGE. 

15. Fourteenth Day. 

1. Bible Geography 122 

2. Mnemonical Words — Adam, David, Christ. . 123 

3. The Teacher's Bible, and How to Use it. ... 124 

4. Assembly Conversation on Sunday-School 

Work — by Dr. Vincent 125 

6. How to Use the Concordance 128 

6. Board of Managers — Incorporation 130 

7. How Chalk can Talk — Lecture 130 

8. Uses of the Blackboard 132 

16. Fifteenth Day. 

1. Competitive Examination 133 

2. Alumni of 1876 133 

3. Alumni of 1877 , 134 

4. Scenes in the Orient — Illustrated Lecture ... 134 

5. Resolutions 136 

Closing Words 137 



OFFICERS, SPEAKERS AND TEACHERS 



OF THE 



SECOND SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST 



BOARD OF MANAGERS. 

Hon. R. H. Gilmore, President, Cedar Rapids. 

Robert Grant, Secretary, McGregor. 

I. Garmoe, Treasurer, Fort Dodge. 

Rev. J. R. Berry, Cor. Secretary, Waterloo. 

Rev.J. H.Lozier,Pres.ofC. L. C. M. A., Webster City. 

Rev. R. W. Keeler, D. D., Epworth. 

Rev. C. T. Tucker, Mason City. 

Rev. M. S. Drury, A. M., Western. 

Hon. Elias Jessup, New Providence. 

Col. E. Shaw, Clear Lake. 

M. Spaulding. 

DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION. 

Superintendent. 

Hev.J. H.Vincent, D.D., Editor Sunday-School Teachers' 
Journal, N. Y. 

Assistant Superintendant. 
Hon. R. H. Gilmore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



OFFICERS, SPEAKERS AND TEACHERS. Xlll 

Secretary. 

M. C. Hazard, Editor National Sunday-School Teacher^ 

Chicago. 

Corresponding Secretary. 

Rev. J. R. Berry, Waterloo, Iowa. 

Institute Secretaries. 
Rev. S. Gilbert, Associate Editor Advance, Chicago. 
Rev. J. B. Albrook, A. M., Dyersville, Iowa. 

Musical Directors. 
Capt. John F. Merry, " Iowa's Sankey," Manchester, la* 
Prof. I. H. Bunn, A. M., Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, 
Iowa. 

Musical Assistants. 
Miss Edith Rann, Pianist, Manchester, Iowa. 
Miss Emma Kent, Organist, West Union, Iowa. 

Mr. Williston, " Davenport, Iowa. 

Manchester Cornet Band, led by Mr. Chas. Eaton. 

Waverly Cornet Band. 

North-western Band of Clinton, led by Prof. Olsen. 

Instruments Used. 
Weber Grand Concert Piano. 
Needham Silver Tongue Orchestral Organs. 

Conductor of Primary Department. 
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Clinton, Iowa. 

Assistants. 
Mrs. S. T. Delevan, Hopkinton, Iowa. 
Mrs. A. F. Townsend, Waterloo, Iowa. 
Mrs. M. J. Aldrich, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
Mrs. E. S. Williams, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Mrs. Geo. Wilson, Marion, Iowa. 
Miss Emma Harbin, Waterloo, Iowa. 



XIV OFFICERS, SPEAKERS AND TEACHERS. 

Normal Class Teachers. 

Judge Harvey Potter, A. M., L L. B., Jefferson, Iowa. 
Wm. Tackaberry, Pres't. Y. M. C. A., Keokuk, Iowa. 
Rev. S. Gilbert, Chicago, 111. 

Rev. E. S. Williams, A. M., Minneapolis, Minn. 
Rev. E. Corwin,D.D., Jacksonville, 111. 
Rev. I. Reid, Ed. Highway Papers; Nevada, Iowa. 
President Alex. Burns, D. D., Simpson Centenary Col- 
lege, Iowa. 
Henry C. Wright, Pres't. Y. M. C. A., St. Louis, Mo. 
Prof. A. F. Townsend, A.M., Waterloo, Iowa. 
Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., New York. 
M. C. Hazard, Chicago, Illinois. 
Rev. M. T. Smedley, Farley, Iowa. 
Prof. S. N. Fellows, D.D., Iowa State University. 
Rev. I. Crook, D.D., Jacksonville, 111. 
Rev. J. H. Lozier, Webster City, Iowa. 
"Chaplain" Williams, Ft. Madison, Iowa. 
Rev. W. Cobb, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Speakers. 

Rev. R. Swearingen, P. E., Decorah, Iowa. 

Rev. E. Corwin, D.D., Jacksonville, 111. 

Prof. J. D. Butler, LL.D., Madison, Wis. 

Prof. Alexander Winchell, LL.D., Prof, of Geology in 
Syracuse and Vanderbilt Universities. 

Rev. Geo. F. Magoun, D.D., Pres't. Iowa College, Grin- 
nell, Iowa. 

A. O. Abbott, Esq., Chicago, 111. 

Rev. E. S. Williams, A. M.. Minneapolis, Minn. 

G. B. Bradbury, Esq., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Henry C. Wright, Esq., St. Louis, Mo. 

Rev, A. P. Mead, Wisconsin. 



OFFICERS, SPEAKERS AND TEACHERS. XV 

Wm. Tackaberry, Esq., Keokuk, Iowa. 

D. H. Mason, American S. S. Union, Alexandria, Minn. 
M. C. Hazard, Chicago, 111, 

J. W. Dean, Sec'y. Y. M. C. A. of Iowa, Cedar Rapids. 
Rev. J. P. Newman, D.D., Pastor Metropolitan Church. 
Washington,!). C. 
John Henry Chapman, T. M. C. A., Chicago, 111. 

E. W. Allen, Esq., Marshalltown, Iowa. 
Capt. Jno. F. Merry, Manchester, Iowa. 
"Chaplain" Williams, Ft. Madison, Iowa. 
Rev. John Y. Atchison, A. M., Clinton, Iowa. 
Hon. R. H. Gilmore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 

Rev. J. R. Berry, Cor. Sec. S.S.A. N. W., Waterloo, la. 

Pres't. Alex. Burns, D.D., Simpson Centenary College, 
Indianola, la. 

Rev. E. P. Graves, Evangelist, N. Y. ' 

Rev. Wm. Cobb, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Mrs. S. T. Delevan, Hopkinton, la. 

Mrs. S. E. Waterbury, Fayette, la. 

Mrs. A. F. Townsend, Waterloo, la. 

Rev. J. H. A^incent, D. D., New York. 

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Clinton, Iowa. 

Mrs. M. J. Aldrich, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Miss Ella J. Mead, " " 

Rev. T. E. Flemming, Northwood, Iowa. 

Mr. Jacob Kissel, Sterling, 111. 

Rev. J. L. Paine, Cresco, la. 

Judge H. W. Maxwell, DesMoines, Iowa. 

Jas. P. Pinkham, Gen. Agent Iowa State Temperance 
Alliance, West Branch, Iowa. 

Rev. E. F. Burr, D.D., Lyme, Conn., author of " Ecce 
Coelum," " Pater Mundi" &c., Lecturer on Scientific Evi- 
dences of Christianity at Amherst College. 



XVI OFFICERS, SPEAKERS AND TEACHERS. 

Rev. I. Crook, D.D., Jacksonville, 111. 

Prof. S. N. Fellows, D.D., Iowa State University. 

Rev. J. S. Ostrander, D.D., Harlem, New York. 

Alumni Organization. 

Pres't. Prof. M. M. Gilchrist, A. M„ Clear Lake, Iowa. 
First Vice Pres't. Rev. H. J. Christ, Austin, Minn. 
Second Vice Pres't. Rev. R. Wolfe, Fairbank, Iowa. 
Sec'y. and Treas., A. O. Abbott, Chicago, 111. 
Ass't. Sec'y. Hattie J. Hankinson, Waterloo, la. 

For names of Alumni of 1876 and 1877, see Proceedings 
of Fifteenth day. 



CLEAR LAKE. XV11 



CLEAR LAKE. 

LOCATION. 

Clear Lake is in Cerro Gordo county, Iowa. It is 
about midway of the State, east and west, and about thirty 
miles south of the Minnesota State line. Situated on the 
C. M. & St. P. R. R., it has daily communication with St. 
Paul and all Southern Minnesota, Wisconsin and North- 
eastern Iowa. By means of cross-railroads any part of 
Iowa or Illinois may be easily reached. The Lake is said 
to be seven miles long and three miles wide. It is a very 
beautiful sheet of water, clear as crystal, being fed entirely 
by springs. It affords facilities for boating, bathing and 
fishing surpassed by no sheet of water on the continent 
and only equaled by a few. The Greene Bros, and the 
Camp Meeting Association each, has a fleet of boats on 
the Lake and ample appliances to supply every demand of 
pleasure seekers. 

HISTORY. 

The Town of Clear Lake, claiming 1,000 inhabitants, 
is situated on a beautiful slope of land, nicely timbered 
with walnut, butternut, hickory, ash and oak, at the east 
end of the Lake. The first settlement was effected here 
in the summer of 1851, by James Dickerson and Joseph 
Hewitt, who removed from Strawberry Point, Iowa, hav- 
ing heard of the beautiful lake, fine timber and abundance 
of game and fish. In 1852 Mr. Dickerson claimed the 
land where the town now stands, and cleared up and 



XV111 CLEAR LAKE. 

plowed a piece of it on which he raised a crop of corn, the 
first grain produced in this part of the State. During the 
summer of 1855, the following additional names appear as 
residents of Clear Lake: Win. Wilson, R. Gardner, H. 
Luce, Peter Parrish, John and Matt. Vanaiken, H. A. 

Stiles, A. Butterfield, D. Goodwin, Marens, E. A. 

and A. B. Turtle, H. G. Parker, Fred. Pattie, Jos. Wood, 
A. Bennett, Jas. Turner, M. Callanan, Oscar Stevens, E. 
A. Ames, F. Garretson, together with others, whose names 
have been lost. 

The town was laid out in 1856 by James Dickerson and 
Marcus Tuttle. Twenty-three others lent their aid and 
counsel. J. Crow, the same year, built the first house on 
the site of the town. Before winter closed operations, 
about forty dwellings had been erected. The financial 
crash of the next year caused quite an exodus and by the 
fall of 1 S5S but fifteen families remained. 

Thomas Palmer, now of Vinton, Iowa, built the first 
store and brought the first regular stock of goods. In 
1856, Ed. Nicholls built a steam saw-mill, which was de- 
stroyed the next year by an explosion of the boiler, and it 
w T as not repaired until 1S62. Mr. Marcus Tuttle, however, 
immediately followed the destruction of the saw-mill by 
the erection of one of greater capacity, which is still in 
operation. Joseph Hewett was the first Postmaster. His 
appointment dates back to 1856. 

The first school was taught by Miss Gardner, who was 
succeeded by Mrs. Stiles, both of whom were residents. 
The first school directors were J. S. Sirrine, T. S. Palmer 
and A. T. Tuttle, in 1857. At that time the district em- 
braced the west half of the county. 

The first newspaper was called the Clear Lake Inde- 
pendent, published by S. Noyes and J. M. Brainard. The 



CLEAR LAKE. XIX 

first issue was in Feb. i860. In one year it was removed. 
April 1870, we find the Clear Lake Observer dispensing 
the news* It is owned by Mr. Geo. E. Frost, who in 1872 
sold it to Judge Rosecrans, and in December it was sold 
and removed. During these years the Observer was 
printed on the first abolition press ever used in the United 
States. It was the identical press owned and used by 
Lovejoy at the time of his murder at Upper Alton, 111., 
when it was thrown into the Mississippi river by a mob. 
Here it lay till 1859, when D. B. Mead of Cresco, Iowa, 
bought and raised it. 

Immediately after the office was removed the citizens 
induced Judge Frost to purchase another, which has done 
service as a newsmonger ever since. 

CHURCHES. 

Rev. Charles Pattee, a superannuated Methodist min- 
ister, preached the first sermon at Clear Lake, in 18^7, in 
the dwelling of Joseph Hewitt. Since that time the fol- 
lowing-named ministers have had pastoral charge: W. P. 

Holbrook, Jos. Hankins, W. B. Glassner, John Ball, 

Gossard, Taylor, Cooley, Richard Burge, A. S. 

Groom, Smay, White, James Williams and A. 

Jamison, present pastor. The Methodists are by far the 
strongest denomination here represented* For years the 
society has had a good church and parsonage. One by 
one the "out appointments" have been lopped off" until 
Clear Lake is left a station. 

The first Sabbath-school was organized by the Metho- 
dists in 1857, after a sermon by Rev. R. Swearingen, of 
the Upper Iowa conference. 

The Congregational Society has had preaching at this 
place occasionally since 1857, wnen Rev. J. S. Saxby 



XX CLEAR LAKE. 

settled here, but no formal organization occurred till Sep- 
tember, 1870, though meanwhile Rev. D. Mason preached 
regularly for almost two years, and Rev. A. S. Allen 
began a regular pastorate in 1868, which lasted till two 
years since. Their church edifice, erected in 1S75, is neat 
and commodious, and their membership is growing nicely. 
Rev. R. R. Wood is present pastor. 

The Baptists entered this field in the early part of 1867. 
Soon after they organized a society of nine members, 
which has grown to quite a good healthy church. Revs. 
G. M. Adams, James Saxby, P. S. Crandall, E. S. Mor- 
gan and F. H. Haunah, have at different times had pas- 
toral relations. Their new church is quite an ornament 
to the town. Rev. J. L. Coppoc at present fills the 
pulpit. 

The Advents were here as early as 1859, when Elder 
P. S. Deyo preached a few sermons, but effected no 
organization. Elder H. H. Jaynes next preached, but left 
without any permanent work. In 1867 Elder Deyo re- 
turned, and organized a society of about thirty persons, 
most of whom have since removed. 

The pastors of this society have been Revs. H. H. 
Jaynes, F. H. Kinney, R. S. W. Deyo, C. C. Ramsey, 
and Mrs. H. H. Jaynes, who is present pastor. They have 
a very neat and tasteful chapel. 

The Norwegian Lutheran Church was organized in 
1873 by Rev. J. Ashjornsen. They have a neat parson- 
age, and a church which amply supplies their wants. The 
services are in the Norwegian language. 

INCORPORATION. 

In 1870, Clear Lake was incorporated, and Dr. W. H. 
Stanley was chosen mayor, and J. R. Prim recorder. 



CLEAR LAKE. XXI 

Since that time it has grown finely. Its business streets 
begin to look quite citified. Main street has a fine view 
of the lake, for its entire length. Nice residences, sur- 
rounded by natural groves, are lising in all parts of town, 
and indicate a substantial growth. The present town of- 
ficers are as follows: Mayor, Dr. J. B. Charlton; Recorder, 
Thomas Sampson; Council,^. H. Boeye, L. G. Hollister, 
H. E. Palmeter and James McLaughlin; Marshal, J. 
Denlinger; Treasurer, M. P. Rosencrans. 

BUSINESS. 

Clear Lake is a good business point. Two firms are 
engaged in live stock and general produce business. Five 
large, well stocked establishments supply dry goods and 
general merchandise. There are two hardware stores, 
two drug stores, two grocery stores, two agricultural im- 
plement firms, four hotels, three restaurants, three boot 
and shoe shops, two lumber yards, two wagon and carriage 
shops, two millinery establishments, four grain elevators 
and warehouses, four blacksmith shops, two harness shops, 
two livery stables, two jeweler shops, two barber shops, 
two furniture stores, two cabinet shops, one photograph 
gallery, one tailor shop, one marble shop, one brick yard, 
one steam flouring mill, one steam feed mill, one steam 
saw-mill, one bank, one printing office, two law firms, two 
firms of medical practitioners, and five resident preachers. 
The following are some of the leading business firms. For 
further particulars see advertising pages of this book. 
Hotels. — Lake House, John Chestnut, proprietor. 

Lake View House, L. V. Davis, proprietor. 

Phillips House, J. W. Phillips, proprietor. 
Bank. — Clear Lake Bank, W. A. Burnap, proprietor. 



XX11 CLEAR LAKE. 

Printing Office. — " Clear Lake Observer," Geo. Frost, 

editor and proprietor. 
Physician.— J. B. Charlton, M. D. 
Restaurant. — O. R. Simenson. 
Furniture. — R. W. Catlin. 

F. Morsch & Son. 
Hardware. — Bishop & Davis. 

Palmeter Brothers. 
Groceries and Provisions. — McLaughlin & Woodstock. 
Dry Goods. — Davis & Hubbard. 
Painter. — Wm. McFadden. 

Carriage and Wagon Manufacturer — J..H.Boeye 
Livery Stables. — C. T. Clark. 
O. C. Sweet. 
Lumber Yards. — Miller & Thayer. 

Woodford & Wheeler. 

The park is justly the pride of the citizens. It contains 
about three acres of a fine slope toward the lake, running- 
down to the shore. It is well shaded with natural and 
ornamental trees. Near the centre a nice pavilion has 
been erected. Seats can be found in nice grass plats for 
the convenience of the weary pedestrian. Nothing seems 
to be wanting, except a flowing fountain, to make this one 
of- the prettiest parks of central Iowa. 

The new school-house is an ornament to the place. 
There are five departments in the school, which is quite 
an advance on twenty years ago, when one school district 
embraced half of Cerro Gordo County. 

All in all, the outlook of Clear Lake is very good in a 
business point of view. But the chief attraction to out- 
siders, and the greatest pride of the inhabitants, is the 
beautiful lake and the 



CLEAR LAKE. XX111 

CAMP-MEETING AND EXCURSION GROUNDS. 

The grounds adjoin the town plat on the west, and 
sweep around the north shore of the lake. They com- 
prise thirty-six acres, and have a half mile of lake front. 
The waters of the lake lave the entire south front of these 
grounds, while the C. M. & St. P. R. R. bounds the north 
side. 

They have a great variety of surface stretching back on 
the bluffs, where they are covered with a thrifty growth 
of forest trees. No grounds can have a surface more de- 
sirable. All the high grounds back from the lake lie in 
ridges, running in different directions, rendering them sus- 
ceptible of the highest degree of ornamentation. The 
water rolls off readily, and the soil is sufficiently sandy to 
prevent the formation of mud; so that after a rain no one 
feels the inconvenience of standing water or muddy walks. 
These ridges give the opportunity to erect cottages on 
their sides, with cook-room below, while other portions of 
the grounds furnish level sides for summer residences. 

These grounds are held and managed by the " Clear 
Lake Camp-meeting Association." This association is 
composed of Christian ministers and laymen, and regularly 
incorporated according to law. The officers of the asso- 
ciation at present are Rev. J. H. Lozier, President; Cyrus 
Spaulding, Vice President ; Rev. R. W. Keeler, D. D., 
Secretary ; Isaac Garmoe, Treasurer ; and Col. Edward 
Shaw, Superintendent of Grounds. "The State Camp- 
meeting Association of Iowa," holds a perpetual lease of 
the grounds on which the Pavilion stands, together with 
all avenues, drives, and other approaches thereto, for camp- 
meeting purposes. They have held two very successful 
camp-meetings on these grounds, which have been seasons 
of great power. This is the second session of the Sab- 



XXIV CLEAR LAKE. 

bath-school Assembly of the North-west, held on the 
grounds. 

The Association leases to private parties lots 20x40 feet, 
for cottages and summer residences. The leases run 99 
years. A small bonus and a light annual leasage are charged, 
all of which, by the Articles of Incorporation, must be per- 
petually expended on the grounds, in the purchase, im- 
provement and supervision of the same. Over one hundred 
lots have already been leased. 

IMPROVEMENTS, ETC. — PAVILION. 

In 1876, by the advice of the State Camp-meeting Asso- 
ciation, the " Clear Lake Camp-meeting Association" 
caused to be erected on the grounds leased to the Methodist 
Episcopal Church a large building, suitable for public wor- 
ship. It is in the form of an octagon, with sides twenty- 
five (25) feet wide, making the building 200 feet in circum- 
ference. A wide^ gallery on seven sides of the building in- 
creases its capacity very materially, while over this gallery 
are sleeping apartments. The building is surmounted by 
a large dome, which pours its light down through the 
centre on the audience below. The sides of this pavilion 
are constructed in a peculiar way. Sixteen feet from the 
ground heavy timbers are framed into the posts all around 
the building, and below this girt the sides are made into 
doors and hung to this timber by heavy hinges. By swing- 
ing the bottom of these sides out and placing them upon 
posts prepared for that purpose, they form a complete awn- 
ing all around the building. When' the building is in use 
no part of it comes to the ground, except the heavy posts 
on which it stands and the sides containing the gallery 
stairs. When in that condition, the building will cover 
about three thousand persons, so the architect estimated, 



CLEAR LAKE. XXV 

while nothing obstructs the voice or eye of the speaker 
from the crowds that may gather around. When finished 
(seated, etc.) it is estimated to cost four thousand dollars. 
It is a very fine structure. Made of excellent material, 
good shingle roof, and cannot be surpassed for the uses for 
which it was built. Its ventilation and light are perfect, 
and the vast crowds that gather in its services are remark- 
ably comfortable. In this pavilion the Assembly holds all 
its exercises — Normal classes, lectures, examinations, etc. 

HEADQUARTERS. 

This is a building 32x40, two stories high, and contains 
the offices of the Association committees, etc., on the first 
floor. The second floor is used for lodging rooms, of which 
there are ten in the building. This building stands adjoin- 
ing the large platform erected by the railroad company to 
receive and discharge passengers on the grounds. It is 
constructed with an open gangway through the centre, 
through which all parties going to and from the cars pass. 
The offices are so constructed as to open, by lifted doors, 
upon this gangway. Passengers from the cars pass through 
this gangway in front of all the offices, and come at once 
within the great circle of the grounds, in the centre of 
which stands the pavilion. On one side of this gang- 
way, is the book-store opening on the grounds. This room 
was first built 16x32, but was found to be too small. So 
an addition was put to it, making the room 16x48. This 
room was occupied exclusively by the 

METHODIST BOOK CONCERN, CHICAGO, 

under the supervision of Mr. John R. Woodbridge, Gen- 
eral Superintendent of the Book Department, assisted by 
Mrs. Woodbridge and Mr. Henry Decker. This house 



XXVI CLEAR LAKE. 

displayed a very large and fine assortment of books, maps, 
S. S. libraries, S. S. helps, books of reference, Bagster,, 
Eyre & Spottiswoode and American Tract Society bibles, 
commentaries, standard theological works, chromos, reward 
cards, book-marks, mottoes, general Sunday. school requi- 
sites, and indeed almost anything one would find in a city 
book-store. The display of maps for Sunday. school pur- 
poses, published by their own house, was very fine. The 
sales of libraries and general Sunday-school requisites was 
good, and large numbers of the ministers and laity availed 
themselves of this opportunity of supplying themselves 
with standard works on theology and general literature* 
The idea of establishing this " branch" of the Book Con- 
cern in the heart of Iowa, within reach of many who sel- 
dom or never visit the permanent depository, is a capital 
one. It not only allows those attending the great gather- 
ings at Clear Lake the privilege of seeing what are to be 
found on the shelves of the Book Concern, but brings the 
publishers face to face with the people, and will bind Metho- 
dists closer to their publishing interests. Besides the pecu- 
niary profits of the sales, the advertisement is of no small 
account. Whether the plan origin ited with Mr. Wood- 
bridge or not, its execution certainly reflects great credit 
upon him and his helpers. The general desire of all who 
have been so faithfully served by them in the past is, that 
many years may elapse before their genial countenances 
shall fail to brighten the interests of the Methodist Book 
Concern at Clear Lake. 

In another part of the grounds, near the postofrice, may 
be found the fine establishment of 

FAIRBANKS & CO., 

Sunday-School Publishers of Chicago. For their conve- 
nience these enterprising gentlemen erected two fine tents 



CLEAR LAKE. XXVll 

of peculiar style and octagonal in shape. The largest of 
these was devoted to the display of a great variety of Sun- 
school requisites. Prominent among these was a large 
supply of the very best Teachers' Bibles of various pub- 
lishing houses, reference books especially adapted to the 
wants of Sabbath-school workers, and works on the theory 
and practice of teaching by such eminent Sunday-school 
men as Crafts, Vincent, &c. 

The great attraction, for the ladies especially, was the 
abundant supply of pictures, rewards, &c, which only sur- 
passed the pleasing variety in their rich and tasteful beauty 
and surprising cheapness. Faiibanks & Co. made a de- 
cided point in the introduction of Welcome Tidings, their 
new Sunday-school singing book, whose decided merits 
commended it to the favorable consideration of all who 
were interested in this very important and entertaining de- 
partment of Sabbath-school furnishing. Their whole dis- 
play which covered a wide range of Sabbath-school and 
general literature, was in exceeding good taste and re- 
flected great credit on the management. The other tent 
was used as a reading room, free to all, where might be 
found the latest papers and magazines, together with a 
good supply of general reading. This was a very popular 
resort and was thronged at almost any hour of the day. It 
was a "feature" of the assembly. Thanks to Fairbanks & 
Co. 

PROSPECT HOUSE. 

This hotel occupies Prospect Point, and has a magnifi- 
cent view of the lake. Only the L of the Prospect House 
is yet built. The present building is 32x70 feet, two stories 
high. The lower story is a large dining-room, with kit- 
chen attached, furnishing conveniences for feeding hun- 



XXV111 CLEAR LAKE. 

dreds of people. The upper story is used for sleeping 
apartments, and divided into eighteen rooms of various 
sizes. The association hopes soon to erect the front of this 
hotel, which will be 40x100 feet, three stories high, and 
wide verandahs on three sides and the three stories. When 
the building is thus completed and furnished there will be 
ample accommodation for summer boarders. The present 
buildings furnish good accommodation for a few summer 
boarders, and are used for that purpose during the warm 
weather. Mr. Charles Ingalls is proprietor. 

COMMERCIAL ROW. 

This is an irregularly shaped building, on the corner of 
Prospect avenue and Glen Drive. It was built the present 
summer for commercial purposes, as its name indicates. 
On the first floor are the superintendent's office, and post- 
office, an ice cream saloon and restaurant, grocery, meat 
and vegetable market. At the post-office all mail matter 
for the camp-ground, is received and delivered. The 
grocery furnishes whatever is usually found in a first-class 
grocery, and all articless are sold at the same price as in 
the village. The meat and vegetable market is supplied 
with all the season affords; milk is also kept here during 
the meetings; also bakery and ice at the restaurant. 
Families can thus live as cheaply here, with all these sup- 
plies at hand, as at home. The upper story of this build- 
ing, is used as a dormitory for ladies. 

WEBSTER BOARDING-HOUSE 

is situated on Glen Drive, and is but a temporary arrange- 
ment at present. It will in due time be supplanted by a 
more pretentious building. It is ioo feet long by 20 feet 
wide, with a wing for cooking purposes. It is but one 



CLEAR LAKE. XXIX 

story high. The location and the excellent table attracted 
large numbers of guests. 

THE IOWA VIEW COMPANY, 

of Iowa City, established themselves in comfortable 
quarters on the north-east portion of the grounds, and by 
means of their excellent appliances took a large number 
of stereoscopic views of Clear Lake and vicinity, include 
ing a number of fine groups of the leading Sunday-school 
workers of the Assembly. 

PRIVATE COTTAGES. 

Of these there are already eleven built, varying in size, 
form, and expense. They cost from one hundred to twelve 
hundred dollars. 

WOODFORD COTTAGE. 

The Woodford Cottage, much the most expensive yet 
erected on the grounds, is a finely finished house, with 
eight rooms and large clothes closets. It is lathed and 
plastered throughout, has a good cellar, two chimneys, 
and is in all respects suitable for use in the winter, as well 
as summer. Its windows are large plate glass, with good 
Venitian blinds. With its porches it is not only very com- 
fortable and convenient, but very ornamental. It was 
erected by Mr. Woodford, of Wisconsin. The Association 
rented this cottage of Mr. Woodford this season, for the 
use of the "workers" in the various meetings held on the 
grounds during the season. Hence they were so well cared 
for. It is situated on Fletcher avenue. 

MERRY COTTAGE. 

The Merry Cottage is a fine two story building, contain- 



XXX CLEAR LAKE. 

ing six rooms, with cook room in the rear, and a fine porch 
in front. It was erected by the Sabbath-school "workers" 
of the Third District, and with the lots on which it stands, 
presented by them to Capt.John F. Merry, of Manchester, 
Iowa, as a testimonial of their high appreciation of his 
work in the Sabbath-school cause throughout the district. 
On the first Friday evening of the Assembly the friends 
from the Third District gathered within and around the 
bulding, with the Manchester cornet band, and Mrs. B. S, 
Brainard, of Brainard, Iowa, in their behalf, made the 
presentation after a brief, but very happy speech. Capt. 
Merry acknowledged the compliment in a few very fitting 
remarks; after which short speeches were were made by 
Rev. J. R. Berry, Rev. J. H. Lozier, and others. This 
cottage is on the south-east corner of Prospect avenue and 
Glen Drive, and has a fine view of the lake. 

BERRY COTTAGE. 

The first cottage built upon the ground is known as 
Berry Cottage, erected by the Rev. J. R. Berry and Win. 
Cattron, of Manchester. It is two stories, and contains 
eight rooms, cook-room, porches, etc. It is provided with 
tight shutters, to protect the windows when not in use. It 
is in the form of a Roman cross, having ample ventilation 
for every room. It is situated on Prospect avenue, and 
adjoins Bethany. 

LOZIER COTTAGE. 

This cottage is built, like the other, in the form of a 
Roman cross, and has eight rooms, cook-room, wood- 
house, porches, etc. It is the residence of Col. Edward 
Shaw, superintendent of the grounds, and is built for win- 
ter, as well as summer use. It is lathed and plastered 
throughout the first story ; is provided with cellar, cistern, 



CLEAR LAKE. XXXI 

chimneys, etc., and is a very comfortable winter residence. 
It is sided with "Cove " siding. Rev. J. H. Lozier, presi- 
dent of the Clear Lake Camp-meeting Association, with 
his family, spends the summer here. 

COTTAGE OF HERMON. 

This is the summer ressdence of Dr. Keeler, and, like 
the last two, is In the form of a Roman cross. It has 
eight rooms, with a fine porch in front of each room, 
above and below. It has a very fine view of the lake # 
The two corners, overlooking the lake, are made into 
large porches, which, with temporary sides, are easily 
converted into rooms, in case of a crowd. This is situated 
on Asbury avenue. 

TAYLOR COTTAGE. 

Rev. J. B. Taylor, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, 
has erected a fine cottage adjoining the Berry cottage. It 
is built on one lot and contains four convenient rooms, cook 
room and porch. It is two stories, a very neat and com- 
fortable summer home. 

In addition to these, W. Carey, Esq., of Webster City, 
Rev. P. W. Gould, of Riceville, Rev. A. A. Shessler, of 
Belmona, Mr. Rhodes and Rev. W. S. Skinner, of Shell 
Rock, have built very neat and comfortable summer cot- 
tages. The Association has desired all parties who build 
on these grounds to adopt the Gothic style of architecture, 
and hence they have a uniform appearance. Temporary 
buildings have been erected by individuals, which serve 
for use until they are ready to put up larger and better 
buildings. Several of these will be erected another sum- 
mer. 

FACILITIES FOR ACCESS. 

By the kindness of the managers of the C, M. & St. P. 



XXX11 CLEAR LAKE. 

R. R., passengers are carried to and from the grounds at 
one and one-fifth fare during all the great meetings held 
here. Passengers are landed on the grounds/within twenty 
yards of the headquarters, on a very commodious platform 
erected by the railroad company. They also furnish spe- 
cial trains, to accommodate the public in getting to and 
from the grounds, whenever practicable. The thanks of 
the public are due the railroad company, for their kindness 
in these and other respects. 

MINERAL WATERS. 

The Association has sunk three wells, at considerable 
expense, in different parts of the grounds. Two of these 
wells are strongly impregnated with iron and sulphur, so 
that while their waters are not so pleasant to some persons, 
they greatly conduce to health. Parties who find their 
residence on the grounds a few weeks results in greatly 
improved health, attribute it mainly to the use of the water 
from these wells. 

It is the purpose of the Association to raise the water 
from the lake by a stationary engine, and distribute it over 
the grounds, in hydrants, fountains, ete., as soon as their 
means will permit. 

The enterprise of establishing a Christian watering place 
at Clear Lake, is in its infancy. It is in the hands of earnest 
and energetic men. Already, although in but the second 
year of its history, great improvements have been made. 
In a few years, as the plans of the Association come to be 
more and more developed, this will be a place of great 
beauty and attractiveness, as well as a centre of great 
Christian power for all the north-west. 

Thanks to the Clear Lake Camp-meeting Association, 
for the free use of their fine grounds, for the Sabbath-school 
Assembly of the North-west. 



Second Sunday-school Assembly 

OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



OPENING CEREMONIES. 

Wednesday, Aug. 22, 1877. 

At 7:30 P. M. under favorable circumstances the Second 
Sunday-school Assembly of the North-west opened. A fine 
rain of the day before had delightfully cooled the atmos- 
phere. Quite a goodly number of people had been on the 
grounds long enough to be well settled. The Manchester 
Cornet Band, the North western Band of Clinton, a grand 
Weber Piano, a large Silver Tongue organ of the Need- 
ham make, and a good choir of trained singers, all con- 
spired to make the services a grand success. 

Miss Edith Rann presided at the piano and Miss Emma 
Kent at the organ. Mr. Chas. Eaton led the Manchester 
Band and Prof. M. Oisen the North-western, Capt. John 
F. Merry was Musical Director. 

Hon. R. H. Gilmore, Assistant Superintendent, called 
the audience to order. 

After music, Rev. I. Reid of Nevada, led in invocation. 



2 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Wm. Tackaberry, of Keokuk, read Deut. vi. chap., after 
which Rev. A. P. Mead led in the opening prayer. 

Rev. R. Swearingen was introduced to deliver the 
"ADDRESS OF WELCOME." 

This was entirely appropriate, as over twenty-one years 
ago, he preached, and organized the first Sunday-school on 
the shores of Clear Lake. 

Responses were made by the following gentlemen on 
behalf of their several States: 

Rev. Edwin S. Williams, A.M., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Prof. J. D. Butler, LL. D., Madison, Wis. 

Rev. E. Corwin, D. D., Jacksonville, 111. 

Mr. H. C. Wright, St. Louis, Mo. 

Rev. J. R. Berry, Cor. Sec. S. S. A. N. W., Waterloo, 
Iowa. 

Rev. J. P. Newman, D. D., Washington, D. C. 

After a few happy remarks by Prest. Gilmore, the L. M. 
doxology was sung, and 

Rev. J. B. Albrook, A. M., pronounced the benediction. 

A short " Self-introduction ceremony" was followed by 
fireworks from the Observatorv and music on the Lake. 



SECOND DAY— Thursday, Aug. 23d. 
FORENOON. 

The morning opened bright and beautiful. 

At 9:30 A, M., a large class met to begin the study of 
the Chautauqua Course of Sabbath-school lessons.* 

Lesson i. Topic: The Books of the Bible; author- 
ship and classification. 

Judge Harvey Potter, A.M., Teacher. 

(* For twenty-nine of these admirable Eessons send 25 cents to Hitchcock & 
Walden, Chicago.) 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 3 

11 A.M. Singing — " Nothing but the Blood of Jesus." 
Prayer by Rev. Dr. Salter, Burlington. 
Singing- — " Hallelujah 'tis done." . 

LECTURE— HEROIC ELEMENTS OF HEBREW 
CHARACTER. 

REV. E. CORWIN, D.D., JACKSONVILLE, ILL. 

A religion that gives to an individual feebleness and 
not strength, cowardice and not courage, cannot be a pres- 
ent blessing or a saving energy for the after life. There 
can be no vital force / no saving energy in that which 
makes one less worthy to be, and because of which he is 
not so well worth saving. There is the antecedent proba- 
bility that a true religion must bo calculated to develop the 
heroic element in human character, so that men shall be 
made more manly by being made more religious. 

The speaker here contrasted the religion of the Hebrews 
and its results in practical life with heathen mythology. 
While heathenism developed brawny, big-boned men, they 
were just as likely to defend the wrong as the right; the 
oppressor as the oppressed. They w T ere as corrupt and 
selfish as they were valiant. On the contrary the heroism 
of the Hebrews was employed largely in defense of the 
right and the oppressed. 

It was might harnessed to right. It was force subject 
to the sway of moral intelligence and a discriminating 
will. 

These propositions were copiously illustrated and en- 
forced by examples of both men and women from sacred 
and profane history. 

There were several causes conspiring to produce heroic 
characters among the Hebrews. 

1 . Their country was rough and abounded in rugged 
mountain scenery. 

2. Bitterly hostile tribes aud nations ever ready to sub- 
jugate and enslave them, were near at hand. 

J. They believed they had a destiny, and however dark 



4 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

the prospect, this faith shot a gleam of hope through the 
gloom . 

4. But above all, their religion was of the sort to teach 
true courage and lofty moral heroism. 

The lecture closed with an appeal for a closer study of 
Old Testament characters and for the retention of the Bible 
in the common schools. 

As a conservator of our liberties it were better to put 
the history of the Hebrew Commonwealth into the hands 
of children as a text-book than to kindle their heroism at 
any other source, or to cast their political principles on any 
other model. 

Men that really believe in the personality of God, and 
get fully into them the idea of equal 7'ights and the 
responsibilities of every person before Him s cannot easily 
be persuaded to surrender those rights or to cast off that 
sense of personal responsibility. 



AFTERNOON. 

2 P. M. Service opened by singing, " I gave my Life 
for thee." 

Rev. Mr. Brown of Emmetoburg offered prayer. 
The lecture of the afternoon was then announced. 
Subject — 

HASH. 

Prof. J. D. Butler, LL.D., Madison, Wis. 

I am advocating what might be termed a " literary tick- 
ler" — a common-place book. This should contain, first of 
all, the first subject, concerning which any special interest 
is felt, as for instance " common place books" Under this 
heading would be noted the names of scholars who have 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 5 

made this kind of a book or have advised to make it, 
together with the references to such facts, adding from 
time to time, the reasons for or against the habit of com- 
mon placing. It should also be a record of " catch words, 1 ' 
which recall new applications of old sayings, and illustra- 
tions of the matter in hand. Under this head would be 
noticed those ideas, which, like the honey-bee, are "short 
and sweet, and, perchance, have a sting at the end." Also, 
those magic phrases, which cannot be improved : 

"Jewels five words long 
That on the stretched fore-finger of all time 
Sparkle forever." 

Also, to stow away the materials, on any theme which 
it has cost time to master, — discoveries in life and litera- 
ture, which, at your bidding, will expand into an hour's 
lecture. 

In this manner, topic after topic will be arranged in 
alphabetical order, duly indexed, so that each can be readily 
found ; be brief, so that a single entry may find ample 
room in a single line. 

Many of the world's most eminent men have derived a 
good share of their inspirations from such books. No 
printed works have ever done so much for mental develop- 
ment. 

It is unsafe to trust these matters to me??iory alone; but 
assist her by associating what new things we learn with 
what we already know and are dear to us. Whatever is 
left unwritten fades and dwindles, and becomes but a cob- 
web, or shadow in the glass. By acquiring the habit of 
?ioting our thoughts and observations, we awaken an in- 
terest in the mind to make new acquisitions and add to 
our mental store. 

This written matter of ours will give us an originality 
not otherwise attainable, and enable us to hold on to what 
is peculiar to ourselves. 

I insist on the importance of tracing out the relations of 
what we learn from books or life, in order to make them 
do us yeoman-service, in illustrating and simplifying our 



6 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTHWEST. 

ideas, which, for the want of, many a speech otherwise 
good, is as monotonous as that picture of the Israelites 
crossing the Red Sea, which was all one dead wall, or 
barn-door, of Spanish brown. When the painter was 
asked, " Where are the Hebrews?" he said, " They have 
all passed over;" and when the question was, " Where are 
the hosts of Pharaoh ?" " Why," his answer was, " They 
are all drowned." It is beyond the power of any mind 
to rally to its standard illustrations pertinent to any theme, 
without the helps which have been suggested. 

Nothing is better adapted for developing the mind, than 
the practice of keeping an object in view, in reading, 
talking, observation, or in the ?noment of reflection. 

The importance of a mark to aim at, can only be appre- 
ciated by those who feel that unless for some particular 
end, all these things are but a specious trifling of our time 
and talents. 

These notes lead to queries, which are the keys of 
knowledge, and make us watchful for every clue to aid in 
this solution. This habit will also be likely to lead us to 
the best reading, and to the dropping of all light and 
trashy literature, which enervates the mind, and renders 
the intellect dyspeptic. 

One other of the many advantages of common placing, 
is the aid thus mi?zistered whenever one has need to recall 
what is previously learned. They are many notions in 
garrison, whence the owner may draw out an army into 
the field, on call; or like the whistle of Roderick Dhu, 
in " Lady of the Lake," 

" He whistled shrill, 
And he was answered from the hill. — 
Instant, from copse and heath arose 
Bonnets and spears and bended bows! 
That whistle manned the lonely glen 
At once with twice five hundred men." 

Promptness is power. Times will present themselves 
in the which one can be more than him or herself, if he 
can but collect his knowledge, and express himself, not 
extempore, for that is " extrumpery" but be able to bring 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 7 

out " things new and old " in a concise and practical 
manner. 

Such common placing helps to retain knowledge, and 
is the mother of accuracy and order. It fertilizes fancy, 
corrects errors, quickens curiosity, and gives us kingly 
command over what we know. 

4:15 P.M. Normal Class met for the study of Sec- 
tion Second of Lesson First of Chautauqua Course. 
Topic : Place and Purpose of the Sabbath-school, 

Wm. Tackaberry, Keokuk, Iowa, Instructor. 



EVENING. 



At 7:30 p.m. the service opened with singing " Precious 
Promises." 

Rev. S. Gilbert, Associate Editor of " The Advance," 
Chicago, read scripture lesson. 

Prayer by J. W. Dean, State Sec. Y. M. C. A. of Iowa. 

Singing, "Jesus lover of my soul." 

Lecture — 

VOICES FROM THE ROCKS.* 

Alexander Winchell, LL.D., Prof, of Geology, in Syracuse 

AND VANDERBILT UNIVERSITIES. 

I desire to introduce a train of thought which shall lead 
you to recognize the actual world, (1) As a chapter of 
history, (2) As a revelation of its Author. The slow- 
ness of the natural changes in progress before our eyes tends 
to produce the conviction that the condition of the world is 
fixed ; that it was created and finished at some remote 
epoch in the past, and remains in a state of finality. This 

* For a full treatment of this and kindred subjects see Dr. Winchell's " Chro- 
nological Chart,'' and " Sketches of Creation." Address, Hitchcock & Waldon, 
Chicago, 111. 



8 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

is an illusion. If the features of the earth seem changeless, 
they are, nevertheless, in a state of perpetual change. What 
our personal observation has not remarked, the eyes of our 
race have clearly witnessed. If casual thought has not in- 
terpreted the meaning of the phenomena transpiring about 
us, science has weighed and measured them, and 
determined their tendency. It has traced backward the 
lines of events into a past practically infinite; and has fol- 
lowed them onward in thought into a practically infinite 
future. Behold how we reason. Here are traces of the 
agency of water. The bedded sands which strew the 
surface, the stratified limestones underneath them, the 
empty and petrified shells imbedded in the cliffs along our 
eastern borders, all proclaim that once the ocean was here 
laying down its sediments and leaving the debris of its 
inhabitants. Here, also are traces of the agency of fire. 
The scattered boulders have been vitrified by heat. The 
rock masses in the far north from which they have been 
derived, have been half fused and crystallized by a heat 
which no longer exists. The copper-bearing traps pro- 
claim that ancient heat has once fused a part of the rocks. 
That state of things has passed away; but the molten lava 
from Kilanea or Vesuvius declares that the ancient fires 
are not wholly extinct. The thermal spring, and the boil- 
ing geyser, reveal a living reservoir of fire; and the 
artesian well, and the deep mine, lead us into felt prox- 
imity to the imprisoned powers of. heat. These are the 
relics of a former state of high thermal intensity. There 
has been a succession of states. There has been a history. 
The world is cooling. Next we actually measure the heat 
escaping from the earth, and find it less than that received; 
and demonstrate the cooling by experiment. 

Cooling ! What does this mean? How long has the 
world been cooling? From what condition has it cooled? 
We know that water may cool from a state of igneous 
vapor; can we content ourselves with assuming that our 
world has cooled only from a molten state? The pre- 
sumption is otherwise. Without reasoning from data 
furnished by other worlds, we see that probably ours has 
cooled from a state of incandescent vapor. 



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But see what this conclusion involves. Our world is but 
one member of a great solar system. All the parts are so 
bound together in a web of common forms and motions 
and forces that the history of one has been the history of 
all. All were embraced in the primitive fire-mist. In this 
sprang up a rotation. As cooling and shrinking proceeded 
the rotation was accelerated. Rings in succession were 
detached, which subsequently became planets. The 
planetary masses, before consolidating, by a similar pro- 
cess, detached rings, which became satellites. The smaller 
masses, primary and secondary, cooled most rapidly. Our 
world became inhabitable at length ; but then our moon 
had passed its habitable stage, and human eyes have be- 
held it only a fossil world. Mars, smaller than the earth, 
is passing into the stage of senescence. Jupiter, on the 
contrary, is still in its stormy stage — a stage once, and long, 
a reality with our own earth, when in process of cooling 
the vapors of water first condensed in the atmosphere, and 
the gathered clouds spread midnight over the world, save 
when gleams of primeval lightnings illuminated the secular 
storm,. Saturn and Uranus are probably in the stormy 
stage — delayed in cooling by the vastness of their masses. 
So the central mass, greater than all the others united 
even, retains its state of incandescence. The sun is a 
relic of the primordial condition; as the rings of Saturn 
have been conserved to exemplify another real stage in 
the process of world-making. 

The primeval rains gathered themselves in a universal 
ocean. Here sprang forth the humblest forms of life, 
which were followed by an advancing procession. The 
types of protozoan, radiate, mollusc, articulate and fish, had 
been reached in animal progress, and a plan of progress 
had thus been announced. But these were all marine, and 
a poisoned atmosphere barred further progress into the 
ranks of air-breathing creatures. But nature was not 
balked. The poison was extracted and laid away as coal. 
The land-plant was the instrument of unbarring the door 
of progress. So the procession moved on; and am- 
spibians, reptiles, birds and quadrupeds marched in sue- 



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-cession down the vista of the ages. Lastly, man stood 
forth. 

How have all these changing forms of the world been 
conditioned by the physical fitness of the world to receive 
them? The whole panorama is at bottom a process of 
cooling. We lift our eyes to the realm of the fixed stars, 
and discern the likeness of this panorama. Some are at a 
ic white " heat; some are '' yellow;" some are " red;" some 
are "variable;" and some are "temporary" — like our 
own sun. Then the filmy nebulae reveal world-stuff in 
its primordial state; and their ,c spiral " and " annular " 
forms are only other stages of world development. All 
that our eyes gaze upon, or our thoughts conceive, is but 
some transient phase of a passing history. 



THIRD DAY — Friday, August 24.TH. 

FORENOON. 

6 140 a. m. Public worship in the pavilion. 

Wm. Tackaberry led a large meeting in an exceedingly 
profitable service. 

8:15. Children's Htsur in Children's Temple, Mrs. J. 
Ellen Foster conductor. 

Services were opened by singing several hymns by the 
children, led by the North-western Band. 

Rev. I. Reid offered prayer. 

Remarks as to the object of Children's Hour were made 
f>y Rev. J. R. Berry. Scripture lesson was followed by 
an address by J. W. Dean, which was full of incidents 
from Chicago Mission Sunday-school work. The chil- 
dren were enrolled, giving name, age and residence. The 



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whole concluded with the artist's taking a picture of the 
Children's Temple, filled with its precious store. 

9:30 A. M. Normal class session was led by Rev. Sim- 
eon Gilbert, of Chicago. 

Lesson No, 2 was taken up, and the first section 
taught. 

Topic. — The Bible a Divine Book; Evidences 
and Inspiration. 

There was a large increase on the attendance of yester- 
day, and a very interesting session. 

11 a.m. After singing, Hon. G. F. Boulton, of Charles 
City, la., read a Scripture lesson, and D. H. Mason, of 
Alexandria, Minn., led in prayer. 

THE BIBLE IN THE ROCKS.* 
Prof Alexander Winchell. LL. D. 

I feel embarrassed by the multitude of suggestions which 
spring forth from a survey of the phenomena of the world. 
I must select a few leading points as samples of the inter- 
pretation of the voices from the rocks. 

1. The system of the world is a unity. Spectrally, I 
showed how the solar system is regulated by a common 
code of laws. I indicated that every aspect presented by 
the starry heavens is but a phenomenon in a process of cool- 
ing; and that every aspect presented to modern eyes, 
exemplifies a stage which was once a reality in respect to 
our own world, or is destined to be such. There, too, is 
the principle of gravitation, which reveals itself active 
amongst the burning and multiple stars; and acts by a 
method so identical with its terrestrial action that the as- 
tronomer calculates the periods of couples so remote, that 

* For full account of what the talented speaker believes and teaches on the 
relation of science to religion, see "Doctrine of Evolution" and ^Reconciliation of 
Science and Religion." For sale by Hitchcock and Walden, Chicago, 111. 



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years — in some cases, scores of years — must be occupied in 
the flight of their rays to us; or traces the pathway of a 
comet which wanders so far that a hundred thousand years 
are consumed in its circuit. And there is light trembling 
along a pathway of seven hundred thousand years, from 
the remotest star — every second darting over an interval 
of one hundred and eighty thousand miles — and yet regu- 
lated by the same laws as the ray from the lamp on the 
table. One ethereal ocean pulsates on the nearest and 
remotest shores. 

Then, in respect to time, I showed that the earth's his- 
tory has been a continuity. It began with cooling; it is 
cooling still. Much more might be said to illustrate the 
historical unity of the world. Next, it seems that this ter- 
restrial evolution is but a picture of the life-time of every 
cosmical body. One method, one thought, one will grasps 
and controls the entire system of existence. 

2. The world had a beginning. It was not eternal, 
as an organism Plato was wrong. Science follows the 
thread of cause and effect back to a point, beyond which 
she cannot proceed. Science cannot declare the cause of 
matter and force; nor of time and space, but recognizes 
with certainty an epoch when the terrestrial organism 
began to exist. Its existence is then contingent and not 
necessary. It is finite and not eternal. 

3. The world resulted from a creaiive cause. In the 
impotence of science, reason declares that even matter and 
force — still more, organization and order — must have had 
a cause. It is not science which declares this; but I wish 
you to notice that science here stands aside and invites 
reason or revelation, or any other credible witness, to step 
in and tell us how matter and force came into existence. 
They give response to the yearning demand of the soul 
for real cause — causa causarum — first cause. Reason 
proclaims primordial cause with the same authority as 
cause. Reason reveals a self-existent cause adequate to 
the production of the universe, nay, adequate to the pro- 
duction of a universe vast as we may be able to conceive it 
— that is, an infinite universe. It also proclaims infinite 
intelligence as the antecedent of an infinite plan. And it 



S.S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 1 3 

proclaims that infinite efficiency and intelligence must be 
the attributes of real being. That real being, as the sub- 
ject of choice and conscious efficiency exerted, before crea- 
tion, in reference to a more potential result, must possess 
existence differentiated from all effect. That is the infinite 
cause and must be a personality. 

We have not time to show that the entire evolution of 
the world from a primordial fire-mist demanded not only 
a causative intelligence as a primitive impulse, but an in- 
finite spiritual agent at every stage of the evolution. In 
short, the forces of nature are only divine volitions. The 
laws of nature are methods of divine activity. 

4. Living forms seem to have arisen by development. 
Not sua sponte assuredly; not without creative efficiency. 
Creation seems to have proceeded by development. " God 
said, let the waters bring forth abundantly." But neither 
the " waters " nor the " earth " could have brought forth, 
unless God had commanded. If specific form arises by 
generation from older specific forms, this does not mean 
that the work goes on by virtue of any efficiency inherent 
in the forms of matter, and capable of acting in the absence 
of Deity. I hold that the whole process of derivation of 
species by continuity, is a revelation of power tantamount 
to creation. As I view the matter, the world of life is a 
perpetual exhibition of the miracle of creation, instead of 
an occasional and speculative one. The method of devel- 
opment of organic forms seems to bring us into infinitely 
nearer relations to God, and to furnish us a view which 
renders it easy to recognize him as a near Providence and 
Hearer of prayer. 

5. Man's origin is comparatively recent. This truth 
belongs to the alphabet of geology. I need not enforce it. 
Nor, being comparatively recent, is the origin of our race 
removed by hundreds of thousands of years. The facts on 
which such opinions of the hign antiquity of the Caucasian 
race have been founded are either illusory or misinter- 
preted. In making this statement, I am in accord with 
the judgment of the great majority of archaeologists. 

6. Man origi?iated in the Orient. The apex of or- 
ganization was in the Orient during the epoch next pre- 



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ceding the human advent. It had been there during older 
epochs. It was manifest that the final culmination of or- 
ganic life in man must naturally take place in the Orient. 
So we argue from the geologic records; but the voices of 
tradition, and history, and language are all in unison. 
Man moved from the east, and brought from his primitive 
home the domesticated plants and animals, appointed to 
subserve his interests. 

7. The world ?nust have an end. We need but to 
follow into the future, the stream of events rushing past 
our doors. The wearing of the lands and the filling of the 
sea will desolate the home of man. The cooling earth, if 
it does not induce rigors of cold too severe for man, will 
result in a porosity of the thickened crust, sufficient to 
drink up the water and the air; and the world will then 
hang, like the moon, a fossil orb. The inevitable cooling 
of the sun will blot out the light and heat which animate 
our system. The resisting ether will produce the precipi- 
tation of the planets upon the sun. Then stagnation and 
physical death will reign, till Omnipotence stretches forth 
its arm to recreate the system. 

I do not affirm that any of these results must ensue. I 
only say the tendencies are in these directions. Nor do I 
point out these tendencies for any other purpose than to 
show that the system of things is not self- sustaining ', and 
that cold science proclaims this fact, while it shows nothing 
beyond the final catastrophe to the physical world. 

Such are some of the chapters of the " Bible in the 
Rocks." 



AFTERNOON. 

2 P.M. Lecture Hour was introduced by singing, "The 
Light of the World is Jesus." 

Prayer by Chaplain Williams of Ft. Madison, la. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. I 5 

THE ASSAULTS OF SOME MEN OF SCIENCE 
UPON RELIGION. 

REV. G. F. MAGOUN, D.D., PRES't OF IOWA COLLEGE. 

Truths never assail one another, even though men are 
incapable of reconciling them, but whenever there is con- 
flict it is waged by men. The critical infidelity havings 
failed and gone down before the Gospel, the materials for 
infidel assault now are furnished by a portion of the body 
of scientific men. There are three points of attack. 

(1.) The Divine authority of the Scripture. 

(2.) The Divine element in Christ. 

(3.) The Divine Agency in the Universe. 

Renan, Straus and such like men, borrow the weapons- 
of their assault from some men of science, such as Huxley, 
Darwin, Tyndall, &c. But these are only one wing of the 
army of science. It is something that has the mark of 
God on it, against which all the blows are aimed. God as 
inspirer of the Scriptures, as one with Christ, as true Crea- 
tor of the world, gotten rid of and God as lawgiver goes 
with him. The Divine authority of the Scripture carries 
with it the Divine authority of their precepts and com- 
mands. 

Some of these men of science concede the possibility of 
miracles, but the point is their actual occurrence as related 
in Scripture. 

In respect to Christ, Humboldt is an example of a cer- 
tain style of scientific influence preparing the way for 
Bruno Bauers' infidelity. Humboldt applauded Straus* 
Leben jfesu, now a mass of infidel ruins. 

As Christianity is ultimately a religion of facts gathered 
about the person, teachings, life and death of Christ a sol- 
vent of the facts strong enough to destroy their credibility 
was sought and some men of science came forward to fur- 
nish it. 

In respect to Divine agency in nature Huxley asserts 
that a personal God is matter of opinion, and Mill that be- 
lief in Him is not necessary to religion, and Tyndall that 
all the necessary power to account for the universe is shut 
up in matter. Even Theodore Parker and Humboldt in- 
dignantly denounce such whimsies as these. 



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Straus welcomed Darwinism as dismissing God from the 
universe. Scientific denial of prayer leads to denial of 
creation. Tyndall's theology of matter never can admit a 
religion, and the concession of an emotional basis of re- 
ligion will do it no better. It is founded on the legitimate 
basis of knowledge and belief, on which science is also 
founded, or on nothing. 

Three suggestions to scientific men and three to Chris- 
tian believers followed. 

I. To Scientific Men. 

(i.) They ought to refrain from clai?ning any exclusive 
relation to the common knowledge of mankind. More 
things are known that are as yet unscientific, than those 
that are scientific. Some things can never have any scien- 
tific tests, e. g. miracles; common knowledge does and must 
establish them. 

(2.) To keep off the territory of philosophy when they 
profess to make scie?ztifc objections to religion. Evolution, 
for instance, is not science, but philosophy, metaphysics, 
applied to materials furnished by physical science. So 
with natural selection as a special theory. The religious 
hypotheses are also philosophy, but they do not require 
omniscience to adequately support them as do the oppos- 
ing or anti-religious ones; e. g. the denial of prayer. 

(3.) To learn the difference betwee7i presumptio?is 
against religio?z and disproof of it. 

II. To Christians who are not scientific men. 
(1.) They should realize the new and altered charac- 
ter of attacks on religion and the necessary defense. 

(2) Give everything established by science full credence 
and weight, even though it be mere belief or presumption. 

(3.) Recognize the fact that the assaults of some 7nen 
of science are simply and only metaphysical. They con- 
stitute a new form of " science falsely so called/' which 
Paul never thought of. To object to their being met by 
metaphysics as Dr. Hopkins met and demolished Thomp- 
son's prayer gauge notions, is simply to object to their 
being answered at all. The infidel evolutionists all fling 
metaphysics at the Bible, at Christ, and at the doctrine of 
creation. 

(This lecture admirably combines the elements which make a scientific lecture 
popular and should be delivered as widely as possible before the Christian public. 
Address the author at Grinnell, la.) 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. I 7 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 

The following among other questions were publicly 
answered by Prof, Winchell, LL. D. : 

1. Have you examined the "Modern Genesis"? What 
is your opinion of the w r ork? 

Ans. It is the best compilation of objections to the 
nebular hypothesis that has ever been made. These ob- 
jections are all scientifically untenable, and have mostly 
been answered by LaPlace, Comte, Pierce, and others. 

2. How do you account for the reverse motions of the 
satellites of Uranus? 

Ans. The Uranian system has been inverted. 

3. What constitutes the separating line between the 
brute and the human ? 

Ans. I don't know. 

4. Is man a creature of evolution, or an independent 
creation ? 

Ans. Whether if the derivative origin of lower species 
♦be a fact, man is also the product of derivative develop- 
ment, is a question not yet settled amongst evolutionists. 
Wallace holds that probably the bodily organization was 
not evolved. Others hold that the psychical nature of man 
was not, while the physical might have been; but the 
majority incline to the view that both the psychical and 
physical natures of man originated by derivative develop- 
ment. My own opinion is not formed. 

5. How do you explain that God made man in his own 
image, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life? 

Ans. God made man in his spiritul image, and by 
animating his organism may be said by a figure of speech 
to have breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. 



1 8 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

6. Do the light and darkness mentioned in Genesis, 
ist. chap. 5th verse, refer to one or two epochs? 

Ans. It refers to the quality of light and darkness, and 
not to an interval of time, which was revealed as the work 
of the first day. Evening and morning are used in a 
poetical sense, meaning the beginning and end of a certain 
creative work. 

7. In case man had not transgressed God's law, would 
he have died a physical death ? 

Ans. Man, as a physical organism, is so intimately bound 
up with the lower organisms which perished all through 
the ages of geological history, that I am constrained to 
believe he was created with a mortal body. 

(Would not the " tree of life " have kept man free from 
physical death, had he not sinned? If not, what was its 
design? See Gen. 3:22 — Editor.) 

8. Are there any proofs that different types of animals 
have developed from different types or species — that is, 
entirely different ? 

Ans. ist. Think they have all been produced by deriva- 
tion. 

2nd. There are many indications that one specific form 
has been derived from another. The water-breathing axo- 
lotl of Colorado transferred to New Haven becomes an air- 
breathing salamander. That is a transition not only from 
species to species, but from genus to genus, and even from 
order to order, and is a fact of observation. There are 
many similar cases. 

9. If it should become an established fact in evolution, 
that man was evolved from a lower order of animals, how 
would it effect the Mosaic account of creation? 

Ans. Don't think it would impair the validity of the 
account in the least. 



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10. Did not the utter destruction of animal life during 
the great convulsions of nature necessitate a new creation 
at each epoch ? 

Ans. Modern science maintains that no single convul- 
sion was world wide; hence animal life was never utterly 
destroyed at any time, and no recreation was necessitated. 

11. Do fossil remains disclose an evolution of man from 
the monkey? 

Ans. No. 

11. How disprove the Darwinian theory of the origin of 
species ? 

Ans. I hold this Darwinian theory to be unproved and 
unprovable. It is but one of several hypotheses for ex- 
plaining an assumed derivative origin of species, but is the 
least satisfactory. 

13. If the material system is cooling off, or freezing up, 
what becomes of 2d Peter 3: 10? 

Ans. There may be a thousand things to divert the 
present tendency of our system. Science simply shows 
that the system is finite as scripture teaches. Morever, 
there are sundry contingencies pointed out by science 
which may result in a fiery termination of the present 
terrestrial order. 

14. How may we know and prove that there is a God? 
Ans. There are several ways of proving the existence of 

a divine Being, but I will refer to but one and the simplest 
— the fact of a universal religious sentiment in humanity. 
This sentiment demands a God. This demand must have 
a supply, or it is different from all else in nature. Hence 
the universal demand for a God is a presumptive argument 
in favor of His existence, which is not a whit short of 
certainty. 



20 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



EVENING. 

7:30 p. m. Opening of the Christian Congress and 
Y. M. C. A. Work. 

Singing — " What hast Thou done for me?" 

Hon. Harvey Potter, Jefferson, led in prayer. 

" Whosoever will " was sung. 

The Young Mens' Christian Association, a 
union of forces for Christian work, was announced 
as the topic for the evening. 

Mr. A. O. Abbott, Chicago, a commercial traveler, wa 
introduced. My first idea of Christian life was that of a 
perpetual round of enjoyment. But there is a better 
thought — " Go work in my vineyard." Few learn this. 
How many do one solid day's work per month for the 
Master? It is a blessed thought that men are always blest 
in doing work for God. Christianity is a force, a power. 

1. If this pozver be in the heart men must work. 

2. This is a saving power for the individual, 

3. // is a saving force in the community. 

This Y. M. C. A. is a union of men for the purpose of 
applying the Christian force in the hearts of young men to 
its legitimate work of saving the world. 

Again, it promotes Christian unity. Men working to- 
gether learn to love each other. 

Rev. E. S. Williams, Minneapolis, Minn., gave a graphic 
description of a meeting with Mr. George Williams, of 
London, England. He it was who originated the Y. M. 
C. A. by beginning a work among the clerks of a mercan- 
tile establishment in which he was employed when a boy. 
Among other good things, this Association has given the 
world are Moody and Whittle, and Sanky and Bliss, not 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 2 1 

to mention hundreds of earnest workers trained for the 
churches, hundreds of hymns inspired, and thousands of 
souls converted. Only eternity will reveal the summary 
of the grand work. 

Mr. G. B. Bradbury, Minneapolis, Minn., did not give 
the Y. M. C. A. all the credit of the present unity among 
Christian denominations. The uniform lessons and united 
Sunday-school work has helped largely. I rejoice in a 
spirit of union among Christians, but also love loyalty to 
ones own denomination. Let Baptists be Baptists, Con- 
gregationalists be Congregationalists, Methodists be Metho- 
dists, but at the same time, let them look out upon others, 
and get enlarged views of the Christian world. This 
opportunity is furnished by the Y. M. C. A. 

Mr. H. C. Wright, of St. Louis, said the Y. M. C. A. is 
simply a supply which comes in response to a great crying 
demand. We live in a great epoch, the great epoch of 
the world. Millions are crying out for salvation. Work- 
ers are scarce; the mission of the Y. M. C. A. is to bring 
into requisition the young men as a moral power — a con- 
secrated force. The Y. M. C. A. is not met by prejudice 
as workers of the churches, as such, are. They have access 
to all hearts. 

A young man is here trained for action and earnest work. 
At first tremblingly and falteringly he puts forth effort, 
but by grace and trying at length he is able to do good 
work in the vineyard. 

These speeches were followed by an interesting inquiry 
meeting, in which several started for a better life. 

Cottage Presentation. 

9:30 p. m. Led by the band those interested marched to 
the cottage which had been erected mainly by the Sunday- 



22 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

school workers of the Third Sunday-school District of Iowa. 
Others, besides residents of this district,had insisted on bear- 
ing a part in the expense of building one of the prettiest 
summer residences at Clear Lake. Up to this time it has 
been known as Brainard Cottage, but henceforth, as a 
tribute of respect and some small compensation for the 
Sunday-school and evangelistic work of " Iowa's Sankey," 
it is to be known as " Merry Cottage" After the audi- 
ence had assembled and a sacred song had been sung, Mrs. 
Brainard who has been head and soul of the enterprise, in 
a neat speech, presented the cottage to Capt. John F. 
Merry, who responded eloquently and appropriately. 
Singing was followed by speeches of Rev. J. R. Berry, 
Cor. Sec.'y and Rev. J. H. Lozier, which were highly 
appreciated by all. The presentation ceremonies closed 
with music by the Manchester Cornet Band. 



FOURTH DAY— Saturday, August 25TH. 

FORENOON. 

The day dawned brightly, with but few signs for the 
rain, which last night's sunset promised. The wind, 
which blew quite a gale during the night, has subsided. 

The 8:40 A. m. prayer meeting, which was led by Mr. 
J. W. Dean, of Chicago, was well attended, and was a 
precious season. The spiritual fervor of the assembly is 
evidently rising. 

9:15 a. m. Children's Hour was under the direction of 
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Clinton. After the singing of 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 23 

" What a Friend we have in Jesus," Rev. L. H. Wood- 
worth, of Jefferson, led in prayer. 

Mrs. Foster read Luke iii.: 8-20. 

Rev. Dr. Newman, of Washington, D. C, then ad- 
dressed the children on " Palestine." The subject was 
gracefully introduced by questioning the little folks, until 
the geography of the Holy Land was brought out, and 
the Saviour could almost be seen in his earthly home. 
Then followed a fine description of the manners and cus- 
toms of the country, in which he explained how Jesus was 
born in a manger, and yet in a house, and the care of 
shepherds for their flocks, especially the Lambs, The 
Dr. evidently had eyes and ears open, in his travels, and 
his speech made one want to read his book on Palestine. 

Mr. O. A. Abbott, of Chicago, followed with a very 
apt and instructive, as well as entertaining, address. 

Th enrolling was then completed, and the children 
were given badges. 

This meeting had attraction enough to draw a large 
crowd of grown up children, whose interest evidenced as 
much satisfaction as that of the lesser ones. 

9:30 a. m. Normal Class Session was conducted by Dr. 
E. Corwin, Jacksonville, 111. 

Third Chatauqua Lesson. 

To fie of Sec. 1. The Bible a Divine Book — Evidences. 

Topic of Sec. 2. The Church and the Sabbath School. 

Points in additon to the regular lesson. 

The Heavenly Father has in this world a holy and 
happy family — The Church. 

How constituted ? Individual believers born again by 
a spiritual regeneration — thousands may be born in a day 
— but they are a thousand individuals regenerated. — No 



24 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

other way of building up this family of the redeemed. — 
All called by one family name. — What a large family. — 
What an honorable family. — What a holy, happy family. 

To what has the organization of the church primary 
reference? To the most efficient working of the church 
in all its departments. Every church should be adapted to 
all classes. Mine house shall be called a house of not 
preaching merely, much less of fashionable display, but a 
house of frayer, for all people — not this class, or that, but 
all people. As the pillar and ground of the truth, the 
church should stand for truth, and maintain the essential 
doctrines. 

At the close of the lesson, Dr. Corwin, by request, gave 
the following definitions: 

Revelation is the supernatural display to human ap- 
prehension of facts or doctrines not otherwise knowable. 

Inspiration is such a divine impulse and guidance as 
prompted the writers of the sacred Scriptures to make their 
record in the most fitting form; and secured them against 
misstatements, or unimportant statements, with reference 
to the worthy ends for which the record was made. 

Miracles are those supernatural acts by which God 
directly and unmistakably endorses the substance of a di- 
vine revelation, and they are the credentials of those per- 
sons through whom the revelation is made. 

ii A. M. SECOND SESSION OF THE CHRIS- 
TIAN CONGRESS. 

Platform Meeting. 

Theme. — The Aggressive Spirit of the Christian 
Church, and what young men may do. 

Scripture lesson, Acts iii.: 1-12 was read by Mr. J. W. 
Dean, and Mr. E. W. Allen led in prayer. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 25 

Chaplain Williams, of Fort Madison, said : The outcasts 
of society seem far from us, but they are not very far off 
after all. They are about and among us. The inmates of 
the penitentiary have come from all over the State, some 
of them not far from Clear Lake. 

Young men may help them after their conviction, but far 
better to keep them out of crime. Many are converted at 
the penitentiary, but over two-thi?'ds of these have been 
faithfully labored with by earnest Christians in the county 
jails. The men in county jails are not beyond reach. 

Mr. John H. Chapman, Chicago, a traveling salesman, 
said : Every wanderer from right goes a continuous down- 
ward course. Jonah ran away from duty, got on ship- 
board, then we find him down in the bottom of the shift, 
and finally as lee ft m 

Young men have many things to draw them into by- 
ways. Do cards, billiards, theaters, social dances, and such 
things help a man to be a better Christian? They either 
help or hinder, raise up or drag down. 

Young men can shun these, help others to shun them, 
and, besides, carry the gospel with them in life and in 
word. 

Wm. Tackaberry, Keokuk, President Y. M. C. A., of 
la.: In the churches many are in the hospitals. Why is 
this so? After conversion, the young hearts are ready and 
yearning for work. Their demand is not supplied by 
' having heavy burdens laid upon them. Put young Christ- 
ians at work, and the more they do the more they feel 
their need of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. To do we 
must be. Workers take in the truth, feed upon it and 
grow. Those who try to live on theology without work, 
will become dry as dust. Strength comes in doing. 

D. H. Mason, Missionary Am. S. S. Union, Alexandria, 



26 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Minn. : Every earnest man has before him a field many 
times larger than he can fill. 

The great difficulty in Christianity is the lack of trained, 
qualified workers. Here is the grand use of such assem- 
blies as this — such training schools. The world is not 
retrograding. The Christian forces are more aggressive, 
better organized, and more efficient than ever before. The 
world is coming to Christ. 

M. C. Hazard, Editor "National S. S. Teacher:" 
Young men can gather hundreds of people into Bible 
classes, who will not come to church Bible classes. Adults 
do not like the usual methods of Bible teaching. They are 
not generally well posted in the Scriptures. Their fathers 
were posted, because the Bible was the one book of the 
family. The last generation has been reading most every- 
thing except the Bible. They don't like too close ques- 
tioning. Maybe it would be well to drop the catechetical 
method and use the lecture plan, and by degrees slip into 
the other plan. The next generation will know more 
about the Bible than their fathers and grandfathers to- 
gether. Here the speaker commended and explained the 
plan of districting, and sub-districting, the Sabbath-school 
work in counties and townships. There is plenty for 
young men to do; none need be idle. 

L. M. Doxology was sung, and Rev. I. Reid, of Ne- 
vada, pronounced the benediction. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 27 



SATURDAY AFTERNOON. 

Third Session of the Christian Congress and 
Young Men's Christian Association. 

The exercises were opened at 2^ o'clock, by singing 
" Once for all." Prayer was offered by H. C. Wright, Esq. r 
of St. Louis. Prof. Bunn sang, " Weary Gleaners," after 
which the Ass't Superintendent, Mr. Gilmore, announced 
that owing to sickness, Hon. John V. Farwell could not be 
present, and a letter from him was read to the audience, 
assuring them of his sympathy and heart-felt interest in 
the work now in progress at Clear Lake. 

Mr. J. W. Dean, Sec. of the Iowa State Y. M. C. A., 
was then introduced. The speaker quoted from 1st Tim. 
4: 12, " Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou 
an example of the believers," etc., as expressive of the 
thoughts of his heart at this time, stating that one of the 
inspirations that brought forth the Y. M. C. A. was de- 
rived from this text, through the instrumentality of Messrs. 
Moody and Bliss. That the Association meets the seeming 
want in the field for some agency, which should reach the 
young men who were out of the reach of Sabbath-school 
or church, and thus wields an arm of the latter, hitherto 
unused. That Christian workers have depended much in 
the past upon enthusiasm and experience, but the time had 
now come when the chief dependence must be upon the 
Word. The Association is now doing a work hitherto 
devolving, for the most part, upon the ministry, thus sav- 
ing the laborious efforts, hitherto put forth by them. It 
is setting new lights before the world, in the use of 



28 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

business men as kelps in carrying the gospel to the un- j 
saved. From the association of young men from differ- 
ent denominations, there arises a warmth of soul and 
hearty encouragement to press forward in the gospel work, j 
not otherwise attainable. The speaker spoke especially of 
the work done among the railroad men of our land, stating j 
that, while there could scarcely be found, a few years ago, 
a Chiistian man among them, that they now number their 
thousands, and take a prominent part in the conventions 
and other public meetings. 

This service closed with the benediction by Rev. J. B ! 
Albrook. 

EVENING. 

7:30 p. m. Bible Reading Service conducted, by Hon. j 
R. H. Gilmore. Prof. I. H. Bunn, A. M., Mt. Vernon,* 
Iowa, led the singing, and Prof. Chas. H. Keeler presided 
at the piano. Rev. L. H. Woodworth led in prayer. 

Subject of reading, " The Prodigal Son." The'readings 
were interspersed with appropriate songs, the whole clos- 
ing with "Yield not to Temptation," and " The Ninety 
and Nine." 

8 p. m. Lecture Hour. 

BUNYAN'S HOLY WAR. 
President Geo. F. Magoun, D.D., Iowa College. 
Dr. Magoun began with some observations upon the 
great variety and richness of the works of the Bedford 
Tinker at large, and the allegorical character of many of 
them. Then he showed why the first part of Pilgrim's 
Progress is superior to the second part and to other Bunyan 
allegories, and why it is *5o much better known than the 

* f r ° f ; Bun , n ' one °. f the leadin §- vocalists of the Northwest, and an earnest S. S. 
worker, has charge of the vocal music department of Cornell College, Mt. Vernon 
la. See ad. 1 ' in back pag-es of this book. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 29 

Holy War,* though the latter contains so much more 
thought and so many more characters, and is more per- 
fectly allegorical. 

An animated exposition of the first-third of the Holy 
War followed, with interpretations of names, incidents and 
the strategy of the campaigns of the two armies of the 
Lord. Dr. M. closed with the first onset of Emmanuel's 
army for the expulsion of Diabolus from Mansoul, leaving 
the white flag floating on Mt. Gracious, to show that 
Emmanuel yet had grace for the wretched town. 

Dr. Magoun then remarked as follows: 

1. There is no less either of genius or grace in this alle- 
gory than in Bunyan's more famous dream. 

2. The author here teaches what in his own heart-his- 
tory the Holy Ghost had taught him. 

The Pilgrim's Progress could not contain it alL "Grace 
abounding," Bunyan's wonderful autobiography illustrates 
that book, but illustrates the Holy War more. 

3. Bunyan's exquisite sense of what law and gospel are 
severally, and their relation to the soul, to salvation, and to 
each other shines more brightly in this than in all his other 
works put together. 

He was master of the subject beyond other uninspired 
men. Every detail throughout displays his matchless art 
in exhibiting the union of law and gospel in converting a 
sinner. 

The lecturer added some earnest remarks upon the Holy 
War as a vade mecum for Christian workers. 

The divine strategy in conquering the soul can in no 
other book be found so portrayed. Pilgrim's Progress is 
the book for one's own spiritual life; the Holy War is the 
book for saving souls by one's dealing with others. 

After announcements by Mr. Gilmore, the services closed 

* There were so many calls for " Bunyan's Holy "War," at Clear Lake, that we 
append prices: iSmo edition, with a sketch of Life of author, 65 cents; 8vo edition, 
with Life of author and foot-notes (very valuable), $2 00. Address the publishers 
of this book. 



30 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

by singing, and benediction by Rev. Mr. Stiffler, of Cedar 
Rapids, 

The day's work closed with fireworks from the Obser- 
vatory and music on the Lake. 



FIFTH DAY— Sunday, August 2 6th. 

FORENOON. 

7:40 a. m. Prayer meeting was led by Mr. J. W. 
Dean. The attendance was large, and the interest sur- 
passing that of any preceding meeting. A fitting begin- 
ing for God's Holy day. 

9:15. MODEL SUNDAY SCHOOL. 

OFFICERS. 

Pastor — Rev. E. S. Williams, A. M., Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

Superintendent — M. C. Hazard, Chicago, 111. 

ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS. 

ist Floor — J. W. Dean, Chicago, 111. Wm. Tacka- 
berry, Keokuk, Iowa. 

ist Gallery — A. O. Abbott, Chicago, 111. G. B. 
Bradbury, Minneapolis, Minn. 

2D Gallery — D. H. Mason, Alexandria, Minn. 

Secretary — Jno. Fairbanks, Chicago, 111. 

Chorister — Prof. I. H. Bunn, A.M., Cornell College, 
Iowa. 

Pianist — Miss Emma Kent, West Union, Iowa. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH- WEST. 3 I 

TEACHERS. 

Primary Class — Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Clinton, Iowa. 

intermediate classes. 

ist. Floor, (middle seats.) 

Mrs. S. E. Waterbury, Fayette, Iowa. 
Mrs. E. S. Williams, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Mrs, Anna B. Rich, West Branch, Iowa. 
Mr. C. G. Rogers, Wheatland, Iowa. 
Mr. Aaron Kimball, Cresco, Iowa. 
Miss Martha Harger, Redwing, Minn. 

adult classes. 

ist. Floor, (under gallery.) 

Rev. W. H. H. Pillsbury, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 

Dr. Chas. Beardsley, Burlington, Iowa. 

Rev. L. S. Hand, Polk City, Iowa. 

Mr. H. C. Wright, St. Louis, Mo. 

Mr. J. D. Blake, Rochester, Minn. 

Judge Harvey Potter, A.M., Jefferson, Iowa. 

ist. Gallery — 

Rev. D. F. Linfield, Moline, 111. 

Rev. Chas. Williams, Ft. Madison, Iowa. 

Mr. John H. Chapman, Chicago, 111. 

Rev. Isaiah Reid, Nevada, Iowa. 

Rev. J. B. Albrook, A.M., Dyersville, Iowa. 

Rev. Jas. Lisle, Dallas Center, Iowa. 

Prof. J. D. Butler, LL.D., Madison, Wis. 

2D. Gallery — 

D. H. Mason, Alexandria, Minn. 



32 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



PROGRAMME. 

I. Song. 

II. Responsive reading — Psalm XIX. 

III. Prayer — by Pastor. 

IV. Song. 
V. Notices. 

VI. Song. 

TT TT t> .. ,. ( ist. Golden Text. 
V il. Recitation ■< ■, ™ 

( 2d. lopic. 

VIII. Lesson Read. 
IX. Lesson Taught. 

35 MINUTES. 

X. Song. 
XI. Lesson Reviewed — Sup't. 
XII. Remarks by the Pastor. 

XIII. Secretary's report. 

XIV. Song. 
Benediction. 

MODEL SECRETARY'S REPORT. 

Assembly Sunday-school Aug. 26th, 1877. 

School was called to order at 9:30 a. m. by the Superin- 
tendent, M. C. Hazard. 

Opened with singing " All hail the power of Jesus' 
name." 

The 19th Psalm was read responsively by the Superin- 
tendent and School. Prayer was then offered by the 
" Pastor," Rev. E. S. Williams, closing with the Lord's 
Prayer, joined in by the whole school. 

Two stanzas from No. 29, in Gospel Hymns and Sacred 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 33 

Songs, were sung. Notices were given by the Superin- 
tendent and Pastor. 

Teachers and scholars were given two minutes to be- 
come acquainted, after which^the school united in singing 
" Savior more than life to me," No. 48 in G. H. and S. S # 

The Golden text, "But there is one God and one Me- 
diator between God and man, the man Christ yesus" was 
repeated in concert by the school. 

The title of the lesson "Paul at Athens, or the Gospel 
of the only God" and the topic " God Made Known" were 
given, and the lesson Acts 17: 22, 8-34, was read respon- 
sively by Superintendent and school. 

3qjL teachers then took charge of their classes for thirty- 
five minutes' study of the lesson. 

At the close of the lesson the school sung heartily " I 
am so glad that Jesus loves me." 

The lesson was then reviewed by the Superintendent. 
The review was followed by remarks by the Pastor. 

Prof. I. H. Bunn, chorister, sung as a solo " Almost 
Persuaded," and the Secretary's report as u Mirror of the 
day " was read. 

Number Present. 



Officers. 


Teachers. 


Intermediate & Adult. 


Primary 




Male. Female. 


Male. Female. 




9 


16 4 


200 220 


45 



Total Present. 

Officers and Teachers. Scholars. Visitors. Grand Total. 

2 9 4 6 5 5° 544 

ioj£ A.M. PREACHING SERVICE. 

The large pavilion was nicely filled, and awaiting the 
grand religious feast, which was served beyond the most 
sanguine expectations. 



34 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Prof. I. H. Bunn, A.M., led the vast audience in singing 
<l Jesus Lover of my Soul," and never did its blessed strains 
swell out more grandly. 

Rev. L. H. Woodworth, of Jefferson, Iowa, led in 
prayer, and Rev. D. Cobb, D. D., of Minneapolis, Minn., 
read the first Psalm. 

Again several thousand voices united to sing God's 
praise, this time in the grand old hymn " Rock of Ages." 

Outline of Sermon. 

Rev. J. P. Newman, D. D., Metropolitan Church, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Text i Tim. i: 15. 

Theme — The Reformatory Force of Christian- 
ity. 

Four great facts confront us at every turn: 

1st. 7 here is that in the xvorld that 7nen call vice, 
which works injury to society. 

2d. There is that in the world which men call virtue, 
that is beneficent to mankind. 

3d. Facts are in proof that the seat of this vice and, 
virtue is neither in the intellect nor in the physical, but 
in %vhat we agree to call man's moral nature. 

4th. That the force that counterworks the evil in man's 
moral nature is external to himself. 

The theory of the Bible is that man is radically bad, 
and that this badness is an inheritance, developed by 
education, increased by circumstances. But there are 
other theories in the world that antagonize this, though all 
admit the existence of vice and virtue. 

I. Let us glance at three of the most potent 
and grandest of the heathen religions that 
have come down to us through the ages. 

i. Confucianism, which has a following of half the 
human race. It professes to reform mankind. Its leading 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 35 

tenet is that human nature is radically good. Vice 
comes from antagonisms between superiors and inferiors, 
hence the remedy is subordination. Subordinate the latter 
to the former and vice will disappear. These, then, were 
the five relations of Confucius, viz.: 

(1.) Wife and husband. 

(2.) Parent and child. 

(3.) Younger brother and elder brother. 

(4.) Younger friend and elder friend. 

(5.) Subject and sovereign. 

The duty of the former to the latter in each case could 
not be dignified with the term obedience, but was abject 
subjection-, subjection even to uncomplaining submission to 
death however arbitrary. 

These gave China the most complete domestic religion 
in the world. 

But Confucianism has utterly failed to supress vice and 
develop virtue. 

2. Sakya Muni, the founder of Buddis?n, taught that 
vice had its foundation in ?nan's desire for the vain and 
changeful thin gs of earth and time / and that virtue con- 
sisted in ascertaining the eternal and unchangeful law 
by which all things are made to change. 

To ascertain that law is to become Buddha, which means 
u the knowing one," and when this knowledge is gained 
the soul enters into Niverna, which is a state of mental 
abstraction, wherein the desires cease and the passions die. 

His adherents number no less than two hundred and 
ninety millions, but the present moral condition of the 
Budhists proves that this system has failed as a reformatory 
measure. 

j. Let us next consider Brahmanism, whose radical 
idea is that sin has its seat in man's -physical nature. 



36 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Therefore reduce the physical to the minimum and exalt 
the intellectual to the maximum and you have virtue. In 
other words mental culture brings repose and a virtuoits 
life. But the history of Greece, of India, of every civilized 
nation is evidence that intellectuality may exist in very 
high degree and various form, and yet man be vicious. 
With all its mental culture India is given to an idolatry, 
wherein are not fewer than 333,000,000 gods. 

There, too, you will find infanticide caste and the 
grossest immorality. These systems having all proven 
failures let us now turn to 

II. CHRISTIANITY AS A REFORMATORY SYSTEM. 

The forces of Christianity are primary and secondary. 
We turn away from the secondary, such as the church, 
the Bible, the ministry, the university, the government, to 
the one great primary force, namely, Christ in man. 
Christ saw the nature of man radically bad, and to reform 
it he converts the soul. 

1.) What Christ did not do is as remarkable as what he 
did do. 

a.) He was not a philanthropist in the ordinary sense. 
He founded no hospitals, orphan asylums, or society for 
relief of the poor and destitute, or for the abolition of 
slavery. He offered no pledge of total abstinence. 

b.) He was not a physician. Though all nature's labora- 
tory was open before him, he did not give a materia medica* 
He healed some, but how many went uncured. 

c.) He did not found a college or university. 

d.) He gave no new civil code to mankind, though 
much needed. 

e.) Though possessed of all knowledge he gave no text- 
book on " true sicience." 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 37 

2.) His mission was to emancipate the soul, and all these 
would follow. 

Justin proportion as men yield themselves to Christ does 
society advance to a better civil, social, intellectual and 
moral life. 

Christ reappears in such scholars as Bacon and Newton; 
in such philanthropists as Howard and Peabody; in such 
statesmen as Washington and Lincoln; in such tem- 
perance reformers as Gough and Murphy; and such Sun- 
day-school workers as Raikes and Vincent. 

We cannot comprehend the practical results of Christian- 
ity in the scope of a decade, but must sweep through a 
hundred years or a millennium. 

The Doctor then grandly described the great political 
civil, and religious changes which have occurred in the 
world since the birth of the American republic, and with 
unsurpassable eloquence and power, demonstrated the con- 
nection between those changes and evangelical Christianity. 

Dr. Magoun pronounced the benediction. 



AFTERNOON. 

2 p. m. Preaching hour was introduced by singing, 
" Stand up for Jesus," Prof. Bunn leading and Miss Kent 
at the piano. 

Prayer was offered by Dr. Magoun. Announcements 
were made by Hon. R. H. Gilmore, Ass't. Supt., after 
which the audience joined in singing " My Soul be on thy 
guard." 

Outlines of Sermon by Rev. E. Corwin, D.D. 
Text — 2 Chron. xvii., 16. 
Sometimes we are asked, what is the use of the chronol- 



38 S. S. ASSEMBLY OE THE NORTH-WEST. 

ogy of the Bible? To the Jew who was interested in pre- 
serving a long line of ancestry, it may have been of im- 
portance, but we can make nothing out of it. This sub- 
ject thus presented itself to me as I selected my text. On 
turning over the leaves of my Bible, I found something 
which at first seemed still more useless, but on delving 
into it, I found so rich a mine that I have concluded that 
nothing of Holy Writ could be omitted without entailing 
loss upon mankind. Turn with me to 1 Chron. i, 1, 2, 3, 
and 4. 

Adam, the earthy man; Seth, substitute; Enoch, mor- 
tal man, sick and despaired of; Kenan, possession pur- 
chased; Mahaleel, the worshiper; Jared, descender, ruler; 
Enoch, dedicated, disciplined, initiated; Mathuselah, sent 
to die, self-doomed to death; Lamach, powerful, poor, 
made low; Noah, rest, consolation; Shem, name, renown; 
Ham, multitude; Japheth widely extended. How each of 
these prophesies something of the Messiah or his mission 
in its signification. 

We take up the musty Chronicles, the dust of ages upon 
them, and we are ready to say this is very dry reading; 
hardly more interesting than census reports, yet even these 
have their uses. They are hardly more entertaining than 
tables of logarithms, yet how important these to nav- 
igation. No more logical than a lexicon, yet the keys 
of untold treasures of thought. But of what worth this 
statement, that Amaziah was the son of Zichri? 

From it we draw these lessons. 

I. Not too careful can we be in training our children. 

Who for the last two thousand years, had ever heard of 
Zichri but for the devotion and the daring of his pious son. 
Amaziah? How many statesmen with no family prayers ; 
no Christian home culture; no family government. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 39 

Business men have not for themselves or for their chil- 
dren solved the great problem of profit and loss, " What 
shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world," &c. 
How many successful railway managers have sons "off the 
track." What if he be himself rushing toward the open 
draw-bridge. 

II. Notice what is saved of Amaziak. 

He offered himself — personal consecration — not his 
money; his family or his labor alone, but himself. 
Willingly, not a grudging nor a stinted offering. 

III. Observe the contagion of one strong example. 
With him 200,000 mighty men of valor. 

Here the Doctor spoke of the worth of organization and 
the power of associated effort. 

This sermon was delivered to an audience numbering 
from 2,500 to 3,000 persons, and was listened to with 
marked attention throughout. The services closed with 
singing " Work for the Night is coming," and benedi ction 
by Rev. J. R. Berry. 

4:15 P. M. — Layman's Meeting. 

Addresses by A. O. Abbott and others. 

Services opened by singing "Halleluah, 'tis done." Hon. 
R. H. Gilmore conducted the exercises by request of Mr. 
Abbott. 

A. O. Abbott, Esq., of Chicago, in a short address 
noted the relations sustained by the traveling men as a 
class, to the Christian people of the country. Thought that 
traveling men were underrated by the religious public. 
That prejudices existed in the minds of some, derogatory 
to their character. Thought it was a mistake. That they 
would compare favorably with other business men in moral 



40 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

worth. That men that have in them the elements of true 
manhood are true, put them where you will. That travel- 
ing men of dissipated habits are fast giving place to men 
of character and moral worth. Thought that we, as Chris- 
tians, should devote our best energies to the Christian 
work. 

Mr. John H. Chapman, of Chicago, next addressed the 
meeting. Our organization, its objects and needs. — "Trav- 
eling Men's Christian Union." Thought that in going 
out into the world to represent his commercial house 
he must also represent Christ. Asked for the Chris- 
tian sympathy and help of the churches for traveling men. 
Also, that they be encouraged to attend church and Sab- 
bath-school by religious people wherever they may chance 
to spend the Sabbath. 

E. W. Allen, Esq., of Marshalltown, in a few remarks, 
thought that our religion should be carried into all the re- 
lations of life; that the business men were the hardest to 
convert; that we want to make our Christianity practical. 

Capt. John F. Merry, of Manchester, Iowa, took for his 
theme " Songs by the Way." That of all men that should 
be happy and sing by the way, it was the Christian man. 
That if we would sing for God, our hearts and lives must 
be consecrated to him. Urged the traveling men to go 
on singing and praying for Jesus. 

After announcements Prof. Bunn sang "Only an Armor 
Bearer," the audience joining in the chorus. 

SABBATH EVENING. 

CLOSING SESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN CONGRESS. 

8 o'clock services opened by singing " There is a foun- 
tain filled with blood." Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. zfl 

Jamison, followed by singing '.'Once for all," led by Prof, 
Bunn. 

Address by Prof. J. D. Butler, LL.D. 

The Young Men's Christian Association have the word 
of God as the basis of their work. It is going abroad 
among every people and every tongue. 

The first and last duty of the preacher is to seth forth 
the Scriptures among the people. It is a mistake upon the 
part of the clergy and the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation in supposing that they are antagonistic to each 
other. 

They are both working in the same direction, and should 
be one. What is most to be desired is, that religious sym- 
pathy and love should be widely diffused, and associated 
among all classes of Christian workers. Our co-workers 
should be increased. It is not a few great strategists that 
are needed, but our strength should lie in the numbers in 
the field. 

Singing, " Let the lower lights be burning." 

Address by Rev. Dr. Magoun. 

Some texts of scripture tell us what God will diO for man- 
kind, while others set forth what he would do in mankind. 
The object of the sacrificial atonement must never be lost 
sight of. While we are externally freed from the law by 
accepting Christ, we find ourselves still under it in spirit 
and in truth. What is most needed at the present time is 
a gospel of law. 

The foundation of all law originated in the fact, that 
whoever originates anything, that others may enjoy, has a 
right to say upon what terms and conditions it may be en- 
joyed. The moral government of God is based upon this 
right. 



42 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

The sacredness of law must be every where taught. 

Ministers ought to preach more law in their sermons; 
not that there should be any less appreciation of the gos- 
pel, but the law should be preached along with it. 

The services were closed by singing "Praise God from 
whom all blessings flow."" 



SIXTH DAY — Monday, August, 27TH. 
FORENOON. 

Last night's rain has thoroughly laid the dust and puri- 
fied the atmosphere. Though cloudy, the morning is 
delightful. 

6:40 a. m. Prayer Service. 

Chaplain Chas. Williams had charge. 

The Lord manifested himself signally, and a gracious 
influence pervaded the meeting. 

8.15. Children's Hour. 

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Conductor; Mrs. Geo. Wilson, 
Sec. After the singing Mr. Rogers offered prayer, and 
Rev. W. F. Dove, of Traer, Iowa, read the parable of the 
five loaves and the two fishes. Dr. J. D. Butler then ad- 
dressed the children. 

Meeting closed with singing, led by Capt. J. F. Merry 

9:15. Normal Class Session. 

Fourth Chautauqua Lesson, Sec. I. 

Topic — The Bible a Divine Book : Evidences — Con- 
tinued. 

Dr. E. Cor win, Teacher. 

11 a.m. Lecture Hour was introduced by singing, 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 43 

" He Leadeth me," after which Rev. E. S. Williams led 
in prayer. 

WHAT I SAW ON THREE CONTINENTS. 

Prof. J. D. Butler, LL.D., Madison, Wis. 

This lecture was begun at this time and was continued 
into the afternoon. 

AFTERNOON. 

2 p. m. Services opened by singing "Jesus paid it all.' 
Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Blain, followed by sing- 
ing " Over There." 

Prof. J. D. Butler, LL.D., finished the delivery of 
the lecture begun in the morning: Subject — 

WHAT I SAW ON THREE CONTINENTS. 

This lecture was replete with witticism and illustration, 
as well as information. The learned speaker took his au- 
dience along with him in his life-like descriptions, as 
beginning with the centre of Bible interest — The la?zd of 
the JBook, — he roamed over Europe, Asia and Africa, in 
each touching only the points of greatest interest. We 
have not space to give such an outline as this lecture 
would require, but feel safe in recommending those who 
want a good lecture, to correspond with the Doctor, at 
Madison, Wis. 

4:15. Normal Class. 

Fourth Lesson of Chautauqua Course. 
Section 2. — Organization of the Sabbath School. 

Rev. E. Corwin, D.D., Teacher. 
Beside the regular lesson, the following points were 
made: 



44 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

i. The school needs a constitution as a mode of action. 

2. The Sunday-school is the church organized and in 
action. 

(a) For self-teaching, (b) For converting and sanctify- 
ing all through the truth. 

3. Who in the church may be left out, and why? 

4. If church all in, who in the community should be left 
out, and why? Get everybody in. 

5. It is not a debating society, — no place for learning 
rules of order. 

6. Not a manual of tactics for church militant, — no one 
need be told the duties of a superintendent, secretary, 
librarian, any more than the duties of a Christian. 

7. Subordinate everything to inspiring a love for the 
Word, and leading the school to a practical application of 

its teachings. 

EVENING. 

8 p. m. Services opened with singing. Rev. P. W. 
Gould led in prayer. 

THE CATACOMBS OF ROME. 

Synopsis of Lecture, 
By the Rev. John Y. Aitchison, of Clinton, Iowa. 

The Catacombs are certain peculiar excavations in the 
vicinity of several ancient cities in Greece, Italy, France, 
Sicily, Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Egypt and South America, 
which were originally quarries, but came to be used as 
places of sepulture, and are now famous for the archaeo- 
logical treasures they contain. 

A passing glance at the Egyptian and Parisian cata- 
combs might serve as a suitable introduction to the subject 
proper. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 45 

During the last days of the Republic and the reigns of 
the early Caesars, the seven-hilled city increased immensely 
in population and extent. The treasures of the world were 
poured into her exchequer. Her temples and triumphal- 
arches, her porticoes and palaces, her amphitheatres and 
aqueducts, her gates and galleries, her circuses and col- 
umns, her baths and basiliccas were on a scale of grandeur 
unparalleled in history of mankind. To procure the needed 
building material, instead of opening hideous quarries, the 
Romans sunk vertical shafts to a considerable depth, where 
they struck a peculiar kind of a rock called tuffa, composed 
mainly of volcanic cinders and a solution of lime. This 
they mined extensively in all directions under the vast un- 
dulating plain called the Campania, and thus by degrees 
were formed the celebrated galleries of the catacombs. 

These chambers are generally low and narrow, and 
labyrinthine in design. If stretched out in one continuous 
line they would measure nearly a thousand miles. This 
account of their origin has been questioned by some. 
Marchi, DeRossi, Woodrow and others, as we believe 
without reason, have advanced the theory that the Roman 
Catacombs were constructed by the early Christians as 
places of burial. These, among other considerations, frown 
upon the theory: 1. The known poverty of the early 
Christians precluded the idea of their executing, in the 
face of proscriptions, such immense works. 2. Over 
200,000,000 cubic feet of debris must have been removed 
from these galleries, and if not utilized for building pur- 
poses, mounds, or mountains rather, must have been 
formed; but of this there is not the slightest trace dis- 
coverable. 3. Building material must have been procured 
somewhere, and if not in these underground galleries, it 
would be difficult to tell where. 

4. The catacombs existed antecedently to Christianity, 
as is evidenced by Tacitus, who says that when Nero was 
deposed by his enraged subjects, his few remaining friends 
urged him to take refuge in the catacombs — thus proving 
their pagan origin. 

Under the strain of necessity, the early Christians util- 
ized these quarries, in the first instance, as places of refuge 



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from persecution during- the more than 200 years over 
which the Ten Persecutions were spread. In their dark 
and labyrinthian recesses they congregated to worship 
Him for whom they suffered, while sturdy and judiciously 
posted men kept watch and ward. 

When Christianity was introduced into Rome, the cus- 
tom of cremation was everywhere prevalent. The materi- 
alistic Romans paid little value to the bodies of their dead; 
but as Christianity inspired the pleasing hope of immor- 
tality, its votaries abjured the pagan practice, and found in 
the example of Jesus a mode of burial which they espoused. 
In the walls of catacombs they dug shelves of requisite 
size wherein they laid the bodies of their dead. And even 
after persecution had ceased, and Christianity had become 
the religion of the empire, they contiuued for more than 
300 years so to do. And to be placed near the tombs of 
the early martyrs was an honor to which kings and prel- 
ates aspired. 

These graves were enclosed by slabs of terra cotta or 
marble, upon which inscriptions, symbols and monograms, 
frescoes and bas-reliefs of the deepest interest, were placed. 
Many thousands of these slabs have been preserved in the 
lapidarian gallery of the Vatican, at Rome, which throws 
light upon the social customs and religious beliefs of the 
6,000,000 of human beings who have been buried in the 
catacombs. 

For nearly two hours the lecturer held his audience in 
wrapt attention, and a general feeling of regret was ex- 
pressed that he could not continue the subject. Without 
the brilliant illustrations on canvas, used by the lecturer, 
it is impossible to convey the deep impression produced by 
the reading of these epitaphs, many of them taken from 
the tombs of the early martyrs; and we cheerfully inform 
our readers that the privilege of hearing these lectures at 
their several homes may be procured, on easy terms, by 
addressing the lecturer, as above. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 47 



SEVENTH DAY— Tuesday, August 28. 
FORENOON. 

6:40 A. m. Public worship at the pavilion was not so 
well attended as usual. The terrific thunder storm of the 
night before had so disarranged the affairs of tenters that 
the morning hour was used in putting things to rights. 
There are signs of beautiful weather for the day. 

8:15. Children's Hour opened with singing "What 
hast thou done for me." After which, Rev. J. N. Piatt 
led in prayer. " Precious promise" was then sung. Capt. 
J. F. Merry led in the singing. Miss Emma Kent pre- 
sided at the piano. 

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster then gave a very interesting and 
masterly running talk on " Daniel and the king's decree." 

Capt. Merry sang as a solo, the children joining in the 
chorus, " What a friend we have in Jesus," and the bene- 
diction was pronounced by Rev. A. M. Shimer. 

9:15. Normal class session. Rev. I. Reid, Instructor. 

Lesson Fifth, Chatauqua series. 

Topic, Sec. 1. The Bible a Divine Book; Evidences 
continued. 

I. Evidences of the authenticity and genuineness 
of the Bible, from its adaptation to the race and its effects 
upon the race. 

1. Man needs and cannot supply a knowledge of God, 
of law, destiny and grace, if there he grace for him. 

The author of the Bible seems to have taken it for 



48 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WETT. 

granted that man needed a revelation. If we find no such 
want in man, no matter how much wisdom the book may 
display, we cannot help questioning its divine authorship. 
If the Bible finds a real need and supplies it, we have 
proof of its divine origin. 

The revelation of God in nature (Ps. viii.: 3 and 19; 
1 Rom. i.: 19,20) though it declares something of the 
Deity as "power," "glory," and " wisdom," is of itself in- 
sufficient for a 

(a) Full understanding of God's nature and the way he 
should be worshiped. 

(b) Nature does not account for creation. 

(c) Nature gives no account of the origin of evil. 

(d) Nature does not answer the question, Why am I 
here? 

(e) Nature does not establish the fact of God's reconcil- 
ation. 

(f) Nature does not establish the immortality of the 
soul, and therefore cannot establish anything definite con- 
cerning future rewards and punishments. 

(g) Nature's method is by testing, which requires us to 
practice vice in order to know what it is. Besides, this 
method, if established lacks authority. 

2. On the other hand, God's second volume, the 
Bible— 

(a) Details the true character of God, 

(b) And accords with and supplements Vol. I. 

(c) By explaining creation, it fixes man's place, object 
in life, and defines destiny. 

(d) It details his fall, and 

(e) Fills the volume with the history of redemption. 

(f) It pushes open the door into the eternal world, and 
so turns on us the light of eternal day. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 49 

(^-) It furnishes a new stimulus to the life of ^the indi- 
vidual, the family and the State. 

II. That the Bible is divine, is evident from the im- 
possibility of accounting for its existence on any other 
theory. 

1. It could not have been the product of bad men. It 
is contrary to all their desires and preferences. False re- 
ligions prove this. 

2. It could not have been the contrivance of good men. 
The Bible purports to be from God. A good man could 

not be guilty of imposition and forgery. 

If, therefore, neither from good nor bad men, it must 
have had a superhuman origin. 

III. Evidence from the self-convincing power of the 
Bible. 

It says test me. Thousands have tested and found the 
truths of the Word realized in their experience. 

This lesson, as taught, varies some from that laid down 
in the course. It will be interesting to compare the 
two. The whole argument will be found in lessons 3, 4 
and 5 of the Chatauqua course of Normal lessons. Hitch- 
cock & Walden, Chicago. Price 25 cts. for entire course. 

11 a. m. Lecture Hour opened with singing No. 32 of 
Gospel Hymns. After which Rev. L. P. Mathews, of 
Postville, led in prayer. 

*THE FAR EAST. 

Rev. J. P. Newman, D.D., Washington, D. C. 

The doctor proposed to speak of the great valley of the 

* Any one desiring the services of Dr. Newman, one of the leading- orators of 
the day, can have choice of a variety of subjects. " Nineveh and its Remains," 
" The Far East," and various others, some of national character, are always 
highly appreciated by an audience, while his commanding- presence and fine ora- 
tory so impress his grand thoughts as to make them indelible. 

His deservedly popular book, "Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh," 
is for sale by Hitchcock & Walden, Chicago . 



50 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Euphrates and its ruins, as fulfillment of the prophesies of 
Scripture and of the testimony borne to the Book by the 
Cuenifrom inscription. 

The Euphrates is the richest valley on the globe in his- 
toric reminiscences. Here Adam and Eve were created ; 
here Noah's ark rested in peace; here Nimrod had his 
hunting grounds; here Job and Abraham were born ; here 
Jonah preached, Daniel prophesied, and the Hebrew cap- 
tives toiled in silence, while their captors required of them 
a song. Even to-day may be found Jews, claiming to be 
descendents of those who refused to follow Ezra back to 
Jerusalem, many of them tracing their genealogy back to 
the time of David. 

Here the eloquent speaker gave so vivid a description of 
the history and geography of the country that one could 
almost imagine himself talking with its ancient worthies. 

From the earliest ages, he carried his audience, by a pro- 
digious leap, to the time of Nebuchadnezzar, about 625 
years before Christ. 

The point of departure in the life of Nebuchadnezzar 
was the battle of Charmecish. 

Whether as general, ruler, or promoter of art and sci- 
ence, he must be considered one of the mightiest men of 
antiquity. His ambition was to build the grandest city, 
found the mightiest government, and bring to the highest 
perfection the art and science of his times. 

In looking into Holy Writ, we find that the prophets 
Isaiah and Jeremiah have pronounced exceedingly grand 
eulogies upon the city of Babylon. Do facts justify these 
eulogies ? 

Here the doctor described a city grander and more mag- 
nificent than the world to-day possesses. For a full de- 
scription, we must refer our readers to Dr. Newman's 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 5 I 

" Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh," on 
sale by Hitchcock and Walden, Chicago. 

These descriptions amply justify the eulogiums of the 
prophets. 

Isaiah prophesied 150 years before Babylon was built, 
200 years before Cyrus was born, and 250 years before 
Herodotus. 

One hundred years after Isaiah came Jeremiah. Both 

told of the same things long years before their fulfillment. 

So perfect is the picture that is drawn by these men, that 

an architect, with their plans, could have builded Babylon. 

Let us look at their photographs of the grandeur and utter 

destruction of the city. 

Refer to Is. li.: i-< ( t> u • ^ *. t^i 

y . y J ) Remembering that .hlam means 

4 •" 1 Persia and Media. 
Isa. xiv.: 1 ( 

r ,. t . j An entrance was effected to Babylon by 
' ( turning the river Tigris from its bed. 

Jer. li. : 39 j Describe the feasting and revelry during 

Isa. xxi. : 5 ( which the city was taken. 

Jer. 1. : 24 The city was taken by surprise. 

Jer. li. : 31. Tells of the confusion of the people. 

f Xenophon tells of the terrible slaughter ; 

Jer. 1. : 43 J so terrible that the commander at last 

Isa. xiii.: 15 | issued orders that only men found on the 
[ streets should be killed. 

The remains indicate a terrible overthrow of a mighty 
city. At the river, enough bricks have been exhumed to 
build another metropolis. 

Here the doctor gave a vivid description of the destruc- 
tion of the bridges, the embankment, the palaces and the 
hanging gardens, to which Jer. li.: 25 evidently refers. 

Near the site of one of these hanging gardens the speaker 
had his attention called to a huge stone lion, under which 



Jer. li. 58. 



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was a prostrate man, with his , hands on the sides of the 
animal, illustrating the fact that they used to throw pris- 
oners into dens of lions. 

The tower of Babel was dedicated to the worship of 
Bel. Isa. 46: 1 and Jer. 1.: 2 foretells its destruction. 

It was in its glory in the time of Xerxes. Alexander 
the Great attempted to recover it from its destruction, and 
employed 10,000 slaves to remove the de6ris,b\it the pro- 
ject was at length abandoned. 

The walls of Babylon were sixty miles 
in circumference, three hundred feet high 
and eighty-seven feet thick at the base. 
Can they be destroyed utterly. Presump- 
tuous prophet. Yet to-day they cannot be 
discovered. 

There was no sea within hundreds 
of miles of Babylon. How could a sea 
, cover her? Now the river Euphrates has 
jer. 1.4 . <j k ro k en through its ancient barriers, and 
I spreads like an inland sea where the proud 
[city once stood. 

Isa. xiii, 19-22 is an exact picture of what exists to-day, 
" It shall never be inhabited," &c. God can take care of his 
prophecies. Alexander tried to rebuild. Parthians, Jews 
and Turks cling to this most fertile of valleys, but Babylon 
is not to be rebuilt. " Neither shall the Arabian pitch his 
tent there." He will venture anywhere else, but there he 
never will abide, even for a night. There are two reasons. 
1. "Wild beasts of the desert lie there." 2. Robbers in- 
fest the place. 

Let us turn for a few moments to the agreement be- 
tween the Bible and the Cueniform inscriptions. Infidels 
rally Daniel on two things: 

1. Belshazzar^s reign. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 53 

But the terra cotta tablets confirm and support the Bible 
account of this remarkable man. 

2. Nebuchadnezzar* s insanity. This is also substan- 
tiated by the tablets. 

Corroboration is also found in these two things. First, a 
certain kind of insanity takes the form of following the 
habits of animals, and second, there grows in that country 
a kind of grass called ^ Nebuchadnezzar* s grass. The 
Doctor then pictured Ninevah, in whose exhumed palaces 
have been found so many inscribed tablets. These Cueni- 
form inscriptions confirm the Bible statement that Nineveh 
was a " great city of three day's journey." 

The walls were 60 miles in circumference, 100 feet high 
and three chariots could drive abreast upon them. Such 
ruins are to be seen nowhere in Asia. Seventy years ago 
Grotefend, a German scholar, concluded that there was a 
relation between these Cueniform inscriptions and modern 
Persian ; and between modern Persian and ancient Sanscrit. 
This has proven true. 

The Doctor here gave a translation of Senecherib's will, 
the oldest on record, from one of these tablets. 

Now let us examine the greatest synchronism on record. 

2 Kings xviii, 13-16, was read and compared with the 
Cueniform inscription. They accorded in every particular 
except one, which was easily accounted for. 

In two other points have these been especially serviceable 
to the Bible. 

1. The Creation. The Assyrian account agrees with 
the Mosaic in three important particulars. 

(1.) Light appeared before the Sun and Moon. (2.) 
Animals were created before man, and (3.) God breathed 
into man the breath of life. 

Now Moses could not have quoted from these inscrip- 



54 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

tions for he lived 700 years before they were made. He 
obtained his information from the original source, and these 
were either copies of his or traditions. 

2. The Deluge. The two accounts agree in that the 
world was destroyed on account of great wickedness. 
A righteous man was saved. There was an ark. 

Discrepancies are 1. " Noah sent out a dove and a raven 
and a swallow" says the tablet. 

2. Noah smuggled several of his neighbors into the ark 
with his family. 

3. Noah did not die but was translated. 

Mr. George Smith went to Nineveh an infidel for the 
sake of reputation and glory. After extensive research 
among the terra cotta tablets, he returns and lectures be- 
fore the Archeaeological Society of London, on the re- 
markable agreement betwee?? the Bible and these inscrip- 
tions. 

The speaker closed with an eloquent plea for confidence 
in the Bible. 

Capt. Merry sang a solo, "No Book is like the Bible,"* 
Miss E. Rann accompanying with the piano. The effect 
was simply grand. 

AFTERNOON. 

ADDRESS BY M. C. HAZARD. SUBJECT UNRULY BOYS. 

iy 2 O'clock. The exercises opened by singing "Jesus 
paid it all," led by Capt. J. F. Merry. Prayer was offered' 
by Mr. S. E. Waterbury, of West Union. Capt. Merry 
sang the " Ninety and Nine," after which M. C. Hazard, 
Editor of the National Sunday School Teacher, was 

* This Hymn is found in "Jasper and Gold," a new S. S. Singing-book, for sale 
by Fairbanks, 46 Madison St., Chicago. Singly 35 cts. $3.60 per doz. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 55 

introduced, and addressed the people upon the subject of 
" Unruly Boys," — a few of the leading points are 

I. There are three reasons why boys are unruly; viz., 
1st. From real wickedness and maliciousness. 

2d. From the want of home training. 

3d. From mere excess of exuberant vitality. 

II. How to manage a class of such boys: 

1st. Make them feel that you respect them. 

2d. Don't get discouraged. 

3d. Love them in earnest. 

4th. Be the master of your class. 

5th. Be cheerful. Be natural. 

III. In order to have successful teachers, they should, 
1 st. Be competent. 

2d. Be good. 

The benediction was pronounced by Rev. Mr. Reid. 

EVENING. 
BIBLE READING AND SONG SERVICE. 

BY MESSRS GILMORE AND BUNN. 

7 o'clock. The service was opened by singing from 
* "Welcome Tidings" "Where He leads we will follow." 
Prayer was offered by Rev. James Lisle, of Des Moines. 
Prof. Bunn sang " Only an armor bearer." Mr. Gilmore 
announced the theme " Christ the model teacher." 
" Go ye therefore and teach." 

(1.) Who should teach? See John 3: 2. (2.) What 
preparations are needed? (a.) Spiritual — See Mark 1: 35. 
Luke 6: 12. (b.) Intellectual — see Luke 4: 17, 20. (3.) 

*One of the best new Sunday-school singing books published, is "Welcome 
Tidings." Send to Fairbanks & Co. lor a sample before purchasing- for your 
schools. Single copy, 35 cents. 



56 S. S. ASSEMBLY OE THE NORTH-WEST. 

How to teach? See John 3: 7, 8. (a.) Use Scripture and 
history. — John 3: 14, and 4: 7. Also see John 6: 26, 27. 
(b.) Use the eye and ear. See Mark 12: 16, 17. (c.) So 
as to convict, see Luke 13: 1, 3. (d.) By object lessons. 
See Math. 6: 28, 29 — Luke 15: 3, 7, and (e.) the reward 
shall be ours. See John 4: 35, 36. 

The reading exercises were interspersed with singing, 
closing with a solo by Prof. Bunn, " Waiting and Watch- 
ing for me." 

Prayer was then offered by H. C. Wright, of St. Louis. 



PLATFORM MEETING. 

ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS ABOUT SUNDAY- 

SCHOOLS. 

ANSWERED BY M. C. HAZARD, EDITOR NATIONAL S. S. 
TEACHER, CHICAGO. 

1. What classes of church members may properly be 
excused from attendance at Sunday-school? 

Ans. 1. The sick. 2. The deaf. 3. Those in prison. 
4. The aged or infirm. 5. Those who must care for 
very young children. 

2. How should a school be closed ? 

Ans. When in good running order. Never " run it out." 

3. Should the superintendent limit the class teaching to 
15 minutes, then take 20 minutes himself in review? 

Ans. No. Ordinarily the review should not occupy 
one sixth the time of the lesson. 

4. How interest the masses in the Sunday-school? 
Ans. The masses are interested — get them into the 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 57 

practical work by stirring them up by means of conven- 
tions, institutes, etc. 

5. How shall the home be brought into closer relations 
with the school. 

Ans. This requires much ingenuity. I have succeeded 
by sending the parents papyrogra^ph letters describing the 
lesson and how grand it was. Get parents into the habit 
of using the "Home Readings" at family prayers. This 
will help. 

6. Please give us the essential qualifications for a good 
superintendent. 

Ans. 1. A good organizer. 2. A lover of children. 

3. A man of few words — many a school is talked to death. 

4. A good worker. Get the best man available, help him 
and don't criticize him. Don't expect perfection. 

7. How do you manage skeptics who persist in asking 
improper questions in the school. Do you allow argu- 
ment? 

Ans. Never allow argument. But little spirituality can 
be attained in that way. Go to him personally and talk 
with him kindly — pray for him. 

8. Would you encourage the organization of Union 
Sunday-schools? How would you prevent the teaching 
of false doctrines in them ? 

Ans. Would organize Union schools wherever the 
community cannot sustain denominational schools. Need 
have no trouble about false doctrine. Teachers generally 
teach the doctrine of the lesson papers. These are 
generally evangelical. Let the imprint of the denomina- 
tion be placed on the National S. S. Teacher and it would 
be good Baptist, Methodist, or Presbyterian, as the case 
might be. 

9. Please explain the relation of the Pastor to the 
Superintendent. 



58 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Ans. The Pastor is captain of the whole ship, and the 
Sunday-school Superintendent is only first mate. The 
Superintendent should not set himself up against the 
Pastor. Their relations should be close and pleasant. 
The Pastor, however, should be accommodating. 

10. What kind of a chorister would you have? 

Ans. One that sung because of his love for the Lord 
Jesus Christ, and not because he wanted to make music in 
the Sunday-school. 

11. Would you have a library? 

Ans. For the average school, it is questionable whether 
the library is the best investment that can be made. 

12. How often would you advise Sunday-school con- 
certs ? 

Ans. Not very often, and not the usual Sabbath-school 
concert under any circumstances. A model concert should 
teach religious and scriptural truth. Let it bring out some 
subject as Faith, Hope, Love. 

13. Should the Superintendent teach a class? 

Ans. No more than a general should command a com- 
pany. 

14. What means shall be employed to induce teachers 
to attend teachers meetings ? 

Ans. (1.) Give them something worth coming to. 

(2.) Hold the meetings from house to house. 

(3.) Let the superintendent induce the teachers to feel it 
is their meeting. They should occasionally conduct the 
meeting. 

15. How much time should be given to a lesson? 
Ans. 35 minutes generally. 

16. How many minutes should the superintendent 
occupy in review? 

Ans. From 5 to 8 minutes. 

17. Would you hold children's inquiry meetings? 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 59 

Ans, Not all the time. In seasons of special interest it 
may be necessary. 

18. What do you do when you can't answer questions 
asked by scholars? 

Ans. Frankly say so, and look them up for the next 
Sunday. 

19. Would you recommend a pastor to preach on the 
Sunday-school lesson before it is taught? 

Ans. Sometimes, but not often / much better have the 
sermon after. 

20. How induce a class of young ladies to study the 
lesson? 

Ans. I know of a young lady who got her class to 
study by going to their homes on week days with lists of 
questions for them to look up, and they did it. Now they 
study the lesson. 

21. Would you hold teachers prayer meetings? 

Ans. Yes, the teachers' meeting should be a prayer 
meeting. 

The congregation joined in singing, " This is the Vic- 
tory," and Rev. J. R. Berry, Cor. Sec'y., pronounced the 
benediction. 



EIGHTH DAY— Wednesday, Aug. 29. 

FORENOON. 

6:40. Prayer Service at the Pavilion. 

8:15. Children's Hour, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster in charge. 

Speakers — Mrs. S. T. Delavan, Rev. Mr. Graves, the 



60 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

evangelist, and Mrs. Foster. After the benediction by- 
Rev. T. E. Flemming, the children remained to prepare 
for a concert. 

9:15. Normal Class session. 

SIXTH CHAUTAUQUA LESSON. 
Prepared by Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D., and taught by 
Pres't. A. Burns, D. D. 

1. The Bible Section. 
Topic : The English Bible, 

1. Nine noble names in connection with the English 
Bible. 

B. A. W. T. C. C. C. P.J. 

1. Venerable Bede. 5. Miles Coverdale. 

2. King Alfred. 6. Archbishop Cranmer. 

3. John D. Wiclif. 7. John Calvin. 

4. William Tyndale. 8. Archbishop Parker. 

9. King James I. 

2. Nine notable memoranda in connection with the 
English Bible. 

1. Venerable Bede, (born 673, died 735,) translated 
the Psalms and the Gospel of St. John into Anglo-Saxon. 
He finished this work on the day of his death. 

2. King Alfred, (born 848, died 901,) translated por- 
tions of the Old Testament. He was engaged on the 
Psalms at the time of his death. 

3. John D. Wiclif, (born 1323, died 1384,) was called 
" The Morning Star of the Reformation." He began on 
the book of Revelation, and finished the New Testament 
in 1380, and the whole Bible was finished before his death 
in 1384. 

4. William Tyndale, (born 1484, died 1536). His 
English translation of the New Testament, printed in 
Cologne in 1525. His Pentateuch was printed in 1530, 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 6 1 

Both were revised in 1534. The New Testament, again 
revised in 1535. He was burned at the stake October, 

1536. His last words were, "Lord! open the king of 
England? s eyes" 

5. Miles Coverdale, (born 1487, died 1568). His 
translation of the Bible was printed in October, 1535. It 
was dedicated to Henry VIII. 

6. Archbishop Cranmer, (born 1489, died 1556). A 
Bible was published under King Henry's authority in 

1537. It was made up by John Rogers and one Thomas 
Matthew, (if this was not an assumed name,) under Arch- 
bishop Cranmer's supervision, and called " Matthew's 
Bible." " From ' Matthew's Bible' — itself a combination 
of the labors of Tyndale and Coverdale — all later revisions 
have been successively formed." — Westcott. One of these, 
" The Great Bible," was translated by Crumwell, Cover- 
dale, and others. Cranmer directed the revision and wrote 
the preface. " The Great Bible" was printed in 1540, and 
was ordered by royal authority to be set up in churches. 
" Taverner's Bible" was a revision of the " Matthew's 
Bible," by Richard Taverner, issued in two editions in 

J 539. 

7. John Calvin, (born 1509, died 1564). During the 

reign of " Bloody Mary" no Bible was published in Eng- 
land. Biblical scholars exiled from England found a re- 
treat in Geneva, Switzerland, where several versions of 
the Scriptures appeared. Among them we have the " Gen- 
evan Bible," translated by Whittingham, (who married 
Calvin's sister,) Westcott, Sampson, and others. The 
" Genevan New Testament" appeared in 1557, the whole 
Bible in 1560. Calvin wrote the introduction to the 
former. 

8. Archbishop Parker in 1565 suggested a new ver- 



62 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

sion of the Bible. Eight of the scholars engaged upon it 
were bishops. Hence it was called " The Bishops' Bible." 
It was also sometimes called " Matthew Parker's Bible." 
It was published in 1568, during the reign of Queen Eliz- 
abeth. Twenty-nine editions in all were published, the 
last in 1608. [A Roman Catholic version of the Bible was 
published — -the New Testament at Rheims, in 1582, and 
the Old Testament at Douay, in 1609.] 

9. King James I. The present " authorized version" 
was suggested in 1603 during the reign of King James I. 
In 1604 the king appointed fifty -four men to engage in its 
translation. Forty-seven of them engaged in the work. 
It was commenced in 1607 and completed in 161 1. 

3. Five facts about the first things in connection with 
the English Bible: 

1. The first complete translation of the whole Bible into 
English — Wiclif's — 1380. 

2. The first Bible, any part of which was printed in 
English -Tyndale's — 1526. 

3. The first English Bible issued by royal authority — 
Cranmer's — u The Great Bible" — 1534-1540. 

4. The first Bible, the whole of which was printed in 
English — Cranmer's — "The Great Bible" — 1534-1540. 

5. The first Bible divided into verses, (with verse-subdi- 
visions, numerals at the beginning of each,) — Genevan 
Bible— 1557-1560. 

[Note. — Cardinal Hugh de St. Cher had divided the 
Scriptures into chapters in the twelfth century, and Robert 
Stephens, a French printer, in 1551, had divided the chap- 
ters into verses, but not breaking up tne text as now. The 
verses were numbered in the margin.] 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 6$ 

Class Drill. 

i. Connect with each of the following dates some im- 
portant fact connected with the English Bible: 1540, 1560, 
735, 1384, 1568, 1536, 161 1, 1526. 2. What share in the 
production of the English Bible had each of the following 
distinguished names? John Calvin, Bede, James I., Cov- 
erdale, King Alfred, Archbishop Parker, William Tyn- 
dale. 3. What name of great beauty and glory is given 
to Wiclif ? 4. What were the dying words of Tyndale? 
5. To whom did Coverdale dedicate his Bible? 6. What 
was the "Matthew Bible?" 7. The " Taverner Bible?" 
8. The "Great Bible?" 9. The "Genevan Bible?" 10. 
The "Bishops' Bible?" 11. State jive facts about our 
present " authorized version." 12. State the Jive first facts 
about our Bible. 

Suggestions brought out in addition to the lesson as 
printed : 

1. The English Bible is not perfect. The new transla- 
tion will be an improvement. Textual criticism has much 
improved since King James' time. 

2. Not all the translations are here recorded. 

3. The Catholic (Douay) Bible was not a translation 
from the original, but from the Latin vulgate, whence 
some of its great errors. 

4. The canonicity of the Books of the Old Testament 
Scriptures was settled long before Christ. 

5. The original manuscripts, strictly speaking, were not 
in the hands of translators of King James' version, but 
transcripts of them. Only one goes back of the fourth 
century, the Codex Sinaiaticus found by Tischendorf. 
This was one of the fifty copies of the Scriptures placed 
by Constantine in the churches. 



6\ S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

6. The difference between the various versions of the 
Bible is surprisingly small. 

ii A. M. Lecture Hour was preceded by excellent 
music by the Manchester Cornet Band and fifteen minutes, 
practice in " Welcome Tidings" the new Sunday-school 
book published by Fairbanks & Co., Chicago, one of the 
sweetest and freshest of the new singing books. 

Rev. A. P. Graves, of N. Y., the noted evangelist, led in 
prayer. 

Hymn No. 6 in " Welcome Tidings" was sung. 

MEMORY— ITS FEATS AND FREAKS. 

SYNOPSIS OF LECTURE BY REV. JOHN Y. ATCHISON, A. M. 
OF CLINTON, IOWA. 

Memory is that faculty of the mind by which we re- 
tain, recall, and recognize our previous perceptions and 
ideas. Hobbes, Helvetius, Condillac, and indeed the whole 
sensational school deny that memory is an original and dis- 
tinct faculty of mind, and resolve the whole phenomena into 
" a prolonged sensation." Memory with them is a mere de- 
caying sense, which may be continued for a time after the 
object producing it is withdrawn. 

But to feel a sensation, and to remember a sensation, are 
wholly different states of mind ; and there is no just ground 
for denying that memory is a separate and original faculty 
of the mind, which cannot be resolved into any other fac- 
ulty, and which gives distinct and peculiar knowledge. 
This faculty lies at the foundation of all mental prog- 
ress, as without it all knowledge of the past would be 
impossible, and man would live only in the present tense. 
As exercised, memory may be spoken of as I. Voluntary, 
and 2. Involuntary, These distinctions are real and an- 
cient as the days of Aristotle. Among the 

I. Conditions of memory, we may enumerate the fol- 
lowing: 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH WEST. 65 

1st. Bodily conditions. In the olden time, powders, 
plasters, perfumes, were added to other nostrums, and 
though we may smile at such conceits, Sir Benj. Brodie, 
in very modern times, has said that " proper means may be 
discovered to preserve that temperature of the brain which 
is favorable to memory." 

2d. Vividness of impression ; 3d. Attention ; 4th. Repe- 
tition ; 5th. Logical and lucid arrangement. 

II. Modifications of Memory are observable. 

1. Some remember facts and figures. 

2. Faces, as Alexander and Napoleon. 

3. Verbiage, Dr. Johnson and Robert Hall. 

III. Feats of memory have been numerous and pro- 
digious. Potentius the friend of Cicero, Christopher 
North, Lawson of Selkirk, Voltaire at Court of Frederic 
the Great, Parliamentary reports in 1732, all attest the 
wonderful power of memory. 

IV. Distinctive qualities of memory are 

1. Susceptibility. 

2. Retentiveness. 

3. Readiness; Isaac Newton, Christmass Evans, are 
illustrations of the lack of readiness. 

V. Methods of memory. 

1st. Topical, invented by Simonides, a Greek poet, B. 
C. 500. 

2d. Rythmical. "Absque, a, ab, abs," &c. " Thirty 
days hath September," &c. 

3d. Numerical memory. Invented by a German monk, 
Feinagle, 181 2 A. D., essentially consists in changing fig- 
ures into letters, and by aid of insignificant vowels making 
words. The following key will explain the system: 

Mnemonics for remembering dates, 

t, n, m, r, 1, d, (c, g, k, q), (b, h, v, w), (p, f ), (s, x, z), 
123456 7 8 9 o 

Vowels are insignificant. Do you wish to remember a 
number, or date, or any list of figures, take the letters in 
the order of the figures to be kept in mind from the above 
table, then fill in vowels to make some word or sentence. 
Then remember the latter, which will always suggest the 



66 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

number; e. g., 32=m-n or man; 832=w-m-n or wmoen; 
i877=t-b-cc- or tobacco; 7393 I27=camp meeting; 6482721 
=Dr. Vincent. 

VI. The immortality of memory seems guaranteed 
by the very nature thereof, as well as by other considera- 
tions. 1st. Analogical argmnent. Nothing lost in na- 
ture, why, therefore, may not thought and consciousness 
continue? 2d. Experience. All know that many thoughts 
that were forgotten have returned, and if some, why may 
not all? De Quincey, in Confessions of Opium Eater; 
Coleridge, in Biographical Literari; Dr. Abernethy, Dr. 
Adam Clark, Sir John Barrow, and many others tell of the 
quickened action of memory in drowning or fever, which, 
though not creating thought, accelerates the brain's action 
and warrants the belief that a more ethenal body may 
greatly increase the scope of memory, and that, indeed, this 
faculty may be the book of judgment. 

The immediate and practical bearing of the whole sub- 
ject upon education especially is manifest. The tendency 
of the present age is to over-simplify instruction. Memor- 
izing Scripture and select classical quotations are among 
the best methods of education. Memory, as a faithful trus- 
tee, will deliver at the proper time what is entrusted to her 
custody. Above all, guard against unsound or immoral 
words or principles in the presence of children. Even 
though they may now be ignorant of the terms, memory 
will harbor them. Guard also our own thoughts. These 
are the nursing fathers of action. Be yourselves pure, and 
teach your children purity. 

Service closed with singing " Nothing but the Blood of 
Jesus." 

Rev. H. T. Curl, of Ft. Dodge, pronounced the bene- 
diction. 

AFTERNOON. 

PREACHING SERVICE. 

2^ o'clock. The service opened by singing "The Light 
of the World is Jesus," led by Capt. Merry, with piano 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 67 
and organ accompaniment by Miss Rann and Mr. 



Williston. Prayer was offered by Rev. E. F. Burr, D. D., 
of Lyme, Conn. Capt. Merry then sung " Weary Glean- 
ers," the audience joining in the chorus. 

SERMON: 

By Rev. E. Corwin, D. D. 

Theme: — "The Perils of the Republic." 

Text: — Judges 16: 20. "The Philistines be upon thee, 
Samson." The following is a brief synopsis of the sermon : 

The confidence of the American people in the strength 
and stability of their government, is only equaled by their 
patriotic devotion to and intelligent preference for it, as the 
best government yet devised, because the most just and 
equitable. But because it has survived the perils, and out- 
ridden the storms of a century, is no evidence of its con- 
tinued existence for the century to come. Among the 
many dangers to which our country is exposed at the pres- 
ent time, none seem so prominent as those which arise 

1st. From Delusive Self-Confidence. 

The people can see no danger from this source, but in 
this fact lies the evil. It is not mere poetry of sentiment, 
but the sober prose of fact, verified by the history of repub- 
lics in the past, that "eternal vigilance," on the part of the 
people, " is the price of liberty." Another source of danger 
arises 

2d. From Popular Ignorance. 

Self-governed communities must be intelligent enough 
to govern wisely, or they necessarily inflict untold evils 
upon themselves, if they do not bring swift and sure dis- 
truction. The ignorant masses are no more competent to 
govern well, than is an ignorant aristocracy, much less than 
an absolute despotism. Hence the importance of our com- 
mon school system. It must not be trammelled, however, 
on the one hand by the crafty Jesuit, nor on the other by 
the noisy infidel. It must inculcate not sectarian, but Bible 
morality. Our next danger lies, 

3d. In the sovereignty of the saloons. 



68 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

They seek to dominate politics, in all parties, and too 
often dictate the bad policies of corrupt office-holders. 
They make a pernicious public sentiment, faster than a 
dozen of our pulpit orators can correct it, and graduate 
more adepts in deviltry, than all our colleges and theolog- 
ical seminaries graduate in creditable scholarship. Another 
danger arises 

4th. From the conflict between labor and capi- 
tal. 

After having dwelt upon the causes of the conflict 
for the past few years, the speaker said, then came a 
heartless struggle between selfishness and misfortune 
— an effort on the part of the rich to secure and con- 
trol the effects of the poor, corrupt rings were formed 
to plunder the stockholder on the one hand, and to 
grind labor on the other. It had come to this, that 
to invest in any joint stock company, for the promo- 
tion of industry and the employment of labor, implied 
a hardihood, if not a verdancy, kindred to that displayed 
by the outsider, who makes a venture at a gaming table. 
The speaker then dwelt upon some of the proposed reme- 
dies, which, in themselves, were a thousand fold worse than 
the disease — showing their cruelty, wickedness, and folly 
as remedies, not reaching either party, but punishing the 
innocent. It was shown that the laboring man always suf- 
fers more than anybody else in these conflicts between 
labor and capital. Practical lessons were then drawn from 
the strike, through which the country has just passed. 

The first mission of the church is to the masses. The 
rich and poor ought to worship together. The thoughtful 
head should not say to the running feet, I have no need of 
you; nor can the cunning hands say to the discerning eye, 
we have no need of thee. Mutual confidence and respect, be- 
tween laborers and capitalists, should be enjoined. The 
rich taught charity, and the poor taught contentment \ 

Railway corporators are not beyond the reach of those 
retributive laws of God's government which are never 
violated with impunity. If they will not remember the 
Sabbath day to keep it holy, if they train a great army 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 69 

of men needlessly to neglect the Sabbath and sanctuary, 
they need not be surprised if those whom they have en- 
couraged not to fear and honor God, shall be used as the 
fitting instruments for their punishment. 

They need not be amazed, if it should be found that "vio- 
lence hath risen up into a rod of wickedness," and in their 
fancied security they should hear a terrible cry : "The Phil- 
istines be upon thee, Samson." 

What thoughtful man is not, in these troublous times, 
learning the lesson that justice enforced, law vindicated, 
penalty inflicted, is the dictate of the truest mercy — the 
first demand alike, of human and divine beneficence. With 
God's blessing upon an intelligent, patriotic, and pious 
people, this giant among the nations may survive the 
storms of the centuries. But without it, the American 
people shall soon be bowing, like a blind Samson, against 
the strong pillars of the republic, only to perish in the ruin 
they madly pull down upon themselves. 

4:15, p. m. Normal Class Session. 

Sixth Chautauqua Lesson, 

Section 2. Sabbath-school Classification. 

Henry C. Wright, Teacher. 
Scheme of Classification, by J. H. Vincent, D. D. 

1 . The Primary or Infant. Made up of the non-reading 
pupils, usually averaging from five to eight years of age. 

2. The lnter7ncdiate or Elementary pupils. From 
eight to ten. 

3. The Third Grade or funior. From ten to fifteen. 

4. The Senior Grade. This includes the older pupils 
and embraces the Lecture Class, which is organized to ac- 
commodate those who are unwilling to submit to exam- 
inations, or to the ordinary questioning of a class, but who 
do desire to enjoy the instructions of a wise lecturer. 

5. The Normal Grade. Made up of two classes of 
pupils, the candidates for the teacher's office, who form a 
sort of Preparatory Normal Class, and those who give 
attention especially to the study of methods and to actual 
practice in teaching. 



70 S. S. ASSEMBLY OE THE NORTH-WEST. 

6. The Sixth or Permanent Grade. This will embrace all 
who have passed the preceding grades, or who on account 
of good scholarship shall be elected by the proper officers 
or board of the school. This grade is designed to hold its 
members for life. It is to be the very highest department 
of the school. 

Points brought out beside the lesson were 
i. Corporal punishment should not be resorted to in 
the Sunday-school, and rewards should be given seldom 
and with great care. 

2. Teachers should not use anything but the Bible 
while teaching. 

3. Don't have so much system as to drive out spiritu- 
ality . 

4. Keep the lesson before you every day in the week. 
"The Home Readings" will help greatly to do this. 

Rev. M. T. Smedley closed with prayer. 

EVENING. 
EVENTIDE CONFERENCE. 

Conducted By Rev. J. R. Berry, Cor. Sec. 

theme: the labor, rest and reward of the 
believer. 

7 o'clock. — The service opened by singing "Nearer 
My God to Thee." 

Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Cobb, of Minneapolis. 

Rev. Mr. Berry said by way of introduction. 

The term eventide is suggestive. At that peculiar and 
impressive hour, Isaac w r ent out to meditate. See Gen. 24:63. 
Meditation is more than a religious reverie. It is more 
definite. Like David, we should have an object before our 
minds in meditation, otherwise, our thoughts wander. 
"Thy testimonies are my meditations" is the language of 
of the Psalmist. Without it much of the reflective and 
powerful influence of our devotional exercises is lost. One 
of the first thoughts that dawns upon the soul, as through 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 7 I 

the Divine Spirit it passes out from the dark realm of 
Death into the life of righteousness is that it has something 
to do. 

Rev. Mr. Graves, the Evangelist, now spoke on the 
subject of "Labor/' 

The saved soul has but one labor to perforin after con- 
version, and that is to lead others to Christ, 

The believer works with God, sympathises with Jesus, 
and is led by the Holy Spirit. 

Rev. Dr. Corwin, made a few remarks on "Rest." 

There was no prescribed method to gain this rest. Some 
find rest in the exceeding great and precious promises, 
others in Doctrine, others in Fatherhood of God, and still 
others in the sacrificial atonement made by our Savior. 

Mrs. S. T. Delevan, spoke upon the "Reward." 

God is the rewarder of all those who diligently seek 
Him. The faithful Christian is looking for the recom- 
pense. Must not, however, work for the reward, but for 
the love of the Master. 

8 O'CLOCK— LECTURE HOUR. 

Lecture by Pres. Alexander Burns, D. D. 

theme: "harmony between science and religion." 

The sketch of this admirable lecture promised by Dr. 
Burns has failed to reach us, hence cannot appear. It has 
decided merit as a popular scientific lecture. Those desir- 
ing to hear an able and entertaining speaker on this sub- 
ject would do well to address him at Indianola, Iowa. 



72 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



NINTH DAY— Thursday, Aug. 30th. 
FORENOON. 

6 :4c) — Public worship in the pavilion was led by Rev. 
A. P. Graves, the noted Evangelist. 

Opened with singing. 

Rev. Mr. Graves read Eph. 3: 14-23, and gave a run- 
ning commentary full of life and spirituality. The prayers 
that followed were prompt, brief and powerful. The spe- 
cial burden of the prayers was for light to shine upon the 
sacred page, that it might be understood aright; and grace 
and ability to so use, live and teach it that others, especially 
Sunday-school scholars, might be led into the way of 
truth. 

The singing was " with the Spirit and the understand- 
ing also." 

This interesting meeting was closed with singing a Rock 
of Ages." 

8:15 — Children's meeting, under the direction of Mrs. 
J. E. Foster, of Clinton. This very interesting feature of 
the assembly has from the first drawn largely on the 
adults, as well as the children. This morning the gather- 
ing, too large to be accommodated in the Children's Tem- 
ple, has assembled in the grand Pavilion. 

Exercises were opened with a number of songs from 
Fairbanks & Co.'s right royal new book, " Welcome 
Tidings." 

Mrs. Dr. Keeler led in the opening prayer. 

Capt. J. F. Merry again led the children in singing. 

Mrs. S. E. Waterbury, of Fayette, happily combined 
the Scripture reading and a superb address on "Bible Flow- 
ers." She did not fail to impress upon her hearers the 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 73 

symbols of the temple and its adornment. The lesson led 
to Jesus, the children's friend. 

Capt. Merry sung "Scatter Seeds of Kindness," as a solo y 
the children joining in the chorus. 

Mrs. A. F. Townsend, of Waterloo, gave a lesson in 
Scripture Geopraphy, during which, as she drew facts from 
the children, she constructed a fine black-board map of 
Palestine. Children of riper years were all eyes and ears 
during this exercise. What a wonderful interest attaches 
to the land of the Saviour. 

Song — "Jewels." 

Benediction by Rev. J. R. Berry. 

9:15 — Normal class. Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D., of New 
York, the conductor, led in prayer. A general review of 
all passed over. 

Lessons 1 to 7 were the general subject for the hour. 

On the black-board was the following diagram : 



'NmS. B T B H B. S. C S. W. L. L.? : T. 

*Pl\ Wr, M. J. S. E. N. D. Pv. Er. Ap. 

3 C1. O. P. H. P. P. &. H. P. G. P. 

tTk&f 1 Ins P- 
net - (Evid. 

__ 1.— 5. 8. Ad. 

°EV. 1} Pos. 2) Actn. Ev. |zA. 4 -C. ?;H. lo e ni y . 

~d a -\xr rp r\ r\ r\ ~d t ^ 

8 N.n.n. 



67vr B.A.W.T.C.C.C.P.J.^'04 

.1.11.11. 1380) i534_40 47 

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1380, 1534-40 47 >07 

'11 
For key to the above see II. below. 



74 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

1. Teachers were asked to tell how they had 

INSTRUCTED THEIR CLASSES. 

i. Three plans were suggested by Judge Potter, as to 
the use of the black-board. 

i. Prepare the lesson and keep it before the class. 

2. " " " and present it only when wanted, 

3. " " " as 'points are drawn out. 

2. The best work of a teacher is zvhat he gets the pu- 
pils to do after he leaves them. 

3. It is not best to drill a class in view of examinations, 
but to master the subject. 

4. In answering a scholar's question, only give him a 
hint at the answer, and get him to work it out. 

5. We want in the normal class simply to establish prin- 
ciples, and let teachers be original as far as possible in 
methods. 

II. Review of lessons gone over. 

1. First line in diagram, indicates names given to the 
Bible. 

2. Second line, principal writers of the Bible. Pr., 
Prophets; Ev., Evangelists; Ap., Apostles. 

3. Class if 'cation of the w?'iters. 

a. Names of minor prophets were given. Not essen- 
tial that these should be known, but convenient. Take the 
first two letters of the names of the minor prophets as a 
system of mnemonics for remembering them. They make 
the following words: 

HoJoAm— ObJoMiNa— HaZeHaZeMa. 

b. Names of greater prophets were given. 

c. All the books of the Old Testaments were named. 



t^ ^ ., . ( Inspiration. 

4. Definitio?is, \ t? a 
~ J ' ( -Evidences. 



Divine Inspiration — "An extraordinary divine agen- 
cy upon teachers while giving instruction, whether oral 
or written, by which they were taught what and how they 
should write or speak" 

b. Definition of Evidences. tc Those arguments or 
proofs by which we are able to satisfy a reasonable in- 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 75 



5. Ev — Evidences 
1. Pos — Possible 



quirer that the Bible is not merely the production of 'man } 
but that it is the work of God" 

1. Our own inferences. 

2. A special faculty might have been 
provided. 

3. Miraculous manifestations might 
be made to each individual. 

4. Angel embassadors to each. 

5. A miraculous, heaven-made book. 

6. A supernatural history. 

2. Actu(al) Ten items as follows : 

1. . (Early, 

2. /A cceptance of Bible •< Long, 

3. *• ( Present. 

Character, 
ontents. 

5- t t ( Nature, 

6. I— I armony with \ Existing institutions, 

7. ( Secular institutions. 

8. Adaptation to the wants of man. 

9. Self-convincing power. 

10. Only theory on which the Bible can be accounted for. 

6. (1.) Nine notable names connected with the English 
Bible. 

(2.) Dates of translation. 

(3.) Square with figures indicates the number appointed 
to translate King James' version and the number who did 
the work. 

'03, '04, '07, 'n indicate 

a. 1603, the time the translation was suggested. 

b. The time the committee was appointed. 

c. When the work was begun. 

d. When completed. 

Review closed with benediction by Rev. S. W. Heald, 
McGregor, la. 



7 6 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



AFTERNOON. 

Lecture by Rev. Dr. Vincent. 

Subject: "THAT BOY'S SISTER." 

2,y 2 o'clock. The people gathered at this hour, in large 
numbers, under the pavilion to listen to the lecture on 
" That Boy's Sister," which Dr. Vincent delivered by 
special invitation, as a prelude to " That Boy." The 
speaker introduced his subject by a few good natured re- 
marks upon ^ Woman's Sphere," in which he indulged in 
various witticisms and much humor, not entirely in accord 
with the views of a large portion of the public mind in 
general, and of the prominent workers, among the ladies 
in particular — not urging his position on this subject, how- 
ever, with a view of prejudicing public opinion, but giv- 
ing them merely as his own personal convictions upon an 
important question. The subject was then presented un- 
der the similitude of a story drawn from real life, in which 
each character played his or her part as naturally and viv- 
idly as though actually living and breathing in our midst. 

There was " that boy's sister" in all her maidenly 
grace and virtue, embodying all that is pure and lovely in 
Christian character, and then there was the mother — a 
" womanly" woman — whose keen perceptions, sound judg- 
ment and kindly feelings won for her the approbation 
which she so richly deserved. 

"That boy," too, was around, in all his buoyancy and 
vigor — a perpetual tease and torment — always on the alert, 
overflowing with exuberance of soul and spirit. The poor 
child in the cottage, close by the stately mansion — the pert 
Miss, a compouud of affectation and coarseness, as well as 
the weak and erring one, all passed in review, and each 
received due share of the speaker's attention in the deline- 
ations of character, forming a most pleasing, and at the 
same time, a most instructive lecture. At its close, Capt. 
Merry sang " Scatter Seeds of Kindness," the audience 
joining in the chorus. 



S. S. -ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 77 

EVENING. 

The Waverly Cornet Band discoursed sweet music in 
front of the pavilion previous to the opening hour. 
CHILDREN'S CONCERT. 
Conducted by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster. 

7J^ o'clock. The concert was opened by singing "I 
Need Thee Every Hour," led by Capt. Merry, with piano 
and organ accompaniments by Miss Rann and Mr. Willis- 
ton. A brief outline of the exercises is here given: 

Scripture Reading — 1st Psalm — Willie Foster. 

Repetition of the Lord's Prayer — By the Children. 

Singing — " The Great Physician-" 

Recitation — Salutatory — Sadie Townsend. 

" Little Things" Exercise — Class. 

Singing — " Weary Gleaners." 

Recitation — " Charley" — Cecil Wilbur. 

Recitation — u Little Jim" — Lillie Smedley. 

Song — " Pass Under the Rod" — Mamie Able. 

Recitation — u The Boatman's Wife" — Nina Todd. 

Solo — " Only an Armor Bearer" — Willie Harbin. 

Recitation—" Burial of Moses" — Willie Smedley. 

Singing — " What a Friend we Have in Jesus" — Minnie Wolfe and 

others. 
Recitation — " Chimes of the Clock" — Class. 
Select Reading — Willie Foster. 
Recitation—" Good Night" — Miss Blake. 

Capt. Merry now sang the solo " Little Willie." By 
request, Miss Ella J. Mead favored the audience with se- 
lect reading — " Little Gretchen." followed by a solo by 
Capt. Merry. Declamation by Sam'l Heald — ic Curfew 
must not ring to-night," and singing " Let the Lower 
Lights be Burning" followed in succession. Further reci- 
tations by Miss Mead, an instrumental selection by Miss 
Edith Rann, and remarks by Rev. J. R. Berry, in which 
he made allusion to the labors of the past year, in present- 
ing the present programme to the people. The exercises 
of the evening closed with the benediction by Rev. J. H. 



78 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



TENTH DAY— Friday, Aug. 31st. 
FORENOON. 

6 :4c Public worship in the pavilion was led by Rev. 
J. B. Albrook, of Dyersville. It opened with singing, " I 
need Thee every hour." 

Rev. U. Eberhart led in the opening prayer. Isaiah 12 
was read and briefly commented on. The meeting was 
largely voluntary, and a goodly number participated. 
Prayer and hymns were short and spiritual, and a general 
tide of good feeling pervaded the assembly. 

Rev. E. W. Jeffries closed with the benediction. 

8:15. Children's Hour was conducted by Mrs. S. T. 
Delevan. Capt. John F. Merry led in prayer. Addresses 
were made by Mrs. Brainard, of Brainard, Iowa; Rev. T. 
E. Flemming, of Northwood, and J. F. Merry, of Man- 
chester. 

Closed with prayer by Rev. T. E. Flemming. 

9:30 Normal Class was conducted by Prof. A, F. 
Townsend, A. M., Waterloo, Iowa. 

Lesson Eighth. — Section 1. 

Topic — Bible History and Chronology. 

Development of Lesson — 

Bible history is embraced in forty-one centuries. It may 
be divided into three grand divisions. From Creation to 
Exodus, about 2500 years ; from Exodus to Christ, 1500 
years ; from Christ to close of Apostolic period, 100. 

The first division is recorded in Genesis, the second in 
the rest of Old Testament, the last in the New. Our les- 
son makes twelve periods, bounded by thirteen epochs. 
In order to aid your memory, we will arrange them as 
follows : 



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79 



4.OO4 
2513 YRS. ^ 




I485 YRS. S 



EXO I49I DUS. 1/NEW 6 TESTAm't 




Adam's Creation 
Delug-e - 
AbrarrTs Call - 
Migration to Egypt 



4004 Itineracy of Hebrews 1491 
234S Separation of Jordan 145 1 
192 1 Royalty Established 1075 
1706 Alienation of Tribes 975 
Enslavement oi'Judah 5S7 
Last of Old Testam't 397 



Gabriel's Announcenft 6 
Olivet's Mount - 30 

Death of John - - 101 



Thus we have these periods arranged in three groups^ 
the first embracing the patriarchial time, when men wor- 
shiped by means of the rude altar. We will call it the 
ADAM-ic era. The second embraces the national period, 
when the seed of Abraham worshiped through the taber- 
nacle and the temple. We will designate it the ISRAEL- 
itic era. The third is the spiritual period, when God came 
down to man ; when the Christian church was established, 
and man worshiped the God-man. We will call it the era 
of GOD with man. In this development, you perceive we 
have three mnemonic words, " Adam," " Israel," " God," 
by the assistance of which you may hold forever in your 
minds these thirteen epochs of Bible history. 

The teacher then produced the following chart, upon 
which the class was thoroughly drilled: 



Ad. Cr. B. 


FROM TO 

C. 4004 — 2348 = 


1 6%6 yrs. 


Dl. 


2348 I92 I = 


427 « 


Ab. CI. 


I92 1 1706 = 


215 « 


Mg. Eg. 


1706 I49I = 


215 « 


It. Heb. 


I49I — I45I = 


40 " 


Sp. Jor. 


I45 1 — IO95 = 


356 « 


Ry. Est. 


x °95 — 975 = 


120 " 


Al. Tr. 


975 — 5 8 7 = 


388 « 


En. Ju. 


587- 3o 7 = 


190 " 


L. O. T. 


397 — 6 = 


391 " 



8o S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Gb. An. 6 -AD30 = 36 " 

Ol. Mt. 30 — 101 = 71 " 

D. Jn. 101 

11 a. m. Christian Temperance Work. 

The exercises were introduced by choir and congrega- 
tion singing a sprightly temperance song entitled, " No 
Compromise." 

Mrs. Foster read the 146th Psalm. 

Dr. Corwin offered an earnest prayer, beseeching the 
bountiful benediction of God upon the earnest temperance 
workers, and his blessing on the many thousand sufferers 
by the curse of rum. 

The Hymn, " There is a Fountain Filled with Blood," 
was then sung. 

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Clinton, Iowa, was then intro- 
duced, and spoke on 

OUR WORK. 

After reading some excellent and very appropriate se- 
lections from Scripture, she said : 

The crusade has passed into history. It was a great 
wave of anguish sweeping over our country. It is a sig- 
nificant word. It is a glory to be a crusader. We must 
not undervalue the power of organization. Our Christian 
Temperance Union is but a part of a grand organization 
with many posts and valiant corps. The speaker men- 
tioned many of the illustrious women w r ho stand grandly 
out before the world. The names of the greatest heroines 
ot this life are not written on the tablets of fame, but they 
surely will come out in God's good time! Home is 
woman's palace, — she is a queen there. The crusade was 
a defense of the home (applause). Our mothers' work in 
the temperance field was individual. We hold to this, and 
add to its effectiveness that of combined effort. We always 
begin our organizations by a prayer-meeting. 

Our methods are — 

1st. To care for the children. 

2d. To scatter te?npera?ice literature. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 8 1 

3d. To call to our aid good lecturers. Woman would 
always lecture. The difference between the old time and 
this is, that now woman has large audiences, — then one 
(poor husband) — now, many. 

4th. To secure and open reading rooms. Our work and 
plans need no defense. 

Our object is to banish intemperance from our land. 
We must be hid with Christ. From one side we hear, 
"Go home and mind your business," and from the other 
something about like it. These shafts hurled at us will 
drive us from the battlements, if we do not hide in Christ. 
All cannot work in these special lines, but all work ought 
to touch this, and promote it. 

"Our God is Marching On," was sung, and benediction 
pronounced by Chaplain Williams. 

AFTERNOON. 

TEMPERANCE LESSONS. 

2J^ o'clock. Services opened, under the pavilion, by 
singing the "Temperance Battle Hymn," led by Capt. 
Merry. 

Prayer was offered by Mrs. M. J. Aldrich, of Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa, followed by singing. 

A poem, on the crusade, was read by Mrs. Pollard 
("Kate Harrington") followed by singing " My Country 
'tis of Thee." 

BIBLE READING. 

By Mrs. S. T. Delevan. 

topic: christian citizenship, its obligations and 
relations to the temperance cause. 

1st. The Christian citizen must obey the law of God — 
Isa. 8: 20; also the laws of his country — Rom. 13: 1, 2; 
must also contribute to the maintenance of the same — Rom. 
13: 6, also, Rom. 6:7; must submit to these laws, as well 
as to rulers — 1 Pet. 2: 13, 14; Math. 22: 21. 



82 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

2d. The State is under obligations to protect the rights, 
person, reputation, and property of the citizen — Rom. 13: 
4. Rulers ?nust govern in the fear of God — 2 Sam. 23: 
3; hating covetousness — Ex. 18: 21. 

3d. Christian citizenship de?nands the suppression of 
all that is destructive to society — Prov. 20: 8. A constant 
admonition to parents to watch over their children — Deut. 
21: 20. Some of the results of inte7n per ance shown in 1st 
Kings 16: 9, 10; Prov. 31: 4, 5; Prov. 20: 1. Good rulers 
are not to give place to oppression — Neh. 9: 27; Ezek. 45: 
9. That rulers are such as the people make. To this end 
therefore all our powers should be engaged, that the people 
may be ruled with wisdom and to the glory of God — 1st 
Cor. 10: 31. Further references were made to Gen. 4:9; 
Prov. 24: 11, 12, and Prov. 29: 24, showing that we are to 
watch over our brother, and not be partakers of other 
men's sins, a practical application being made to the tem- 
perance cause. 

Singing, " Marching on to Victory." 

By request of Mrs. Foster, Mr. Jacob Kissel, of Sterling, 
111., the reformed blacksmith, related several incidents in 
his life — spoke of his character before conversion, and of 
the marvelous things the Lord had done for him; thought 
that there was not charity enough shown to men of his 
class, by some Christian people; did not mean to find fault 
with the whole church, but only with those who failed to 
encourage and support them in their efforts and labors to 
overcome, by the grace of God, their appetite for strong 
drink; that every pure and noble Christian will do this, and 
help the suffering and distressed, while mere pretension 
will not. It requires courage to do right, in this, as well 
as in every other good work; that he did not represent 
the Reform Club, but Christ, and worked in the interest 
of Christianity. 

Singing, "O! sad is the heart of the lone one," from 
« Tidal Wave." 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 83 

NORMAL LESSON. 

Conducted by Rev. M. T. Smedley, of Farley, Iowa. 

EIGHTH LESSON-SUNDAY-SCHOOL SECTION. 

topic: "the superintendent's office and work."* 

The superintendent is the head — some say, the school, it- 
self — scholars and teachers are needed, but are of little 
avail without a superintending head, would be but a mass- 
meeting. The superintendent crystalizes the materials. 
The ideal superintendent must possess earnest piety, execu- 
tive ability, love for children, familiarity with Scripture, 
enthusiasm, &c, which the class enumerated at considera- 
ble length. 

EVENING. 

SERVICE OF TEMPERANCE CONSECRATION. 
Conducted by Mrs. M.J. Aldrtch. 

71^ o'clock. Services opened by singing, " O, Think of 
a Home Over There." 

Reading of Scripture, in which occurred the leading 
thought, "What wilt thou have me to do?" 

Prayer was offered by Mrs. B. S. Brainard, followed by 
singing, " I need Thee every hour." 

Mrs. Aldrich made a few opening remarks, in which she 
stated that the temperance work carried on in a Christian 
manner, was an aid not a hind7-ance to the work of the 
church. 

Rev. J. L. Paine remarked that it not only aided, but 
prepared the way for the Christian work which usually 
followed it, by a renewed consecration of the members; 
that until members of the church became so consecrated to 
God that they can bear the abuse, calumny, and reproach 
which labor in the temperance cause brings upon them, 
the work of saving souls would not move forward. 

* "The Church, School, and its Officers,' 1 by Dr. Vincent, discusses the whole 
question of the superintendent. Price 75 cents. Hitchcock & Walden, Chicago. 



84 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Prayer was then offered. 

After further remarks were made upon the subject of 
temperance work, the audience joined in singing, "Rescue 
the Perishing." Capt. Merry, being the last speaker, 
enjoined a duty, not only upon the Christian men and 
women, but upon men and citizens generally, of this great 
land, to aid in carrying forward this great temperance work. 

Prayer was then offered by Chaplain Williams, followed 
by a solo by Capt. Merry, " Stay with me." 

LECTURE HOUR. 

Lecture by Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D.. 



8 o'clock. This lecture, although before the public for a 
long time, has not lost any of its interest and power, if the 
outbursts of applause and expressions of mirth on the part 
of the large concourse of people that listened to its delivery 
serve as an index, yet it seems to be presumption to attempt 
any lengthy description of that with which so many read- 
ers are undoubtedly familiar. Suffice it to say, "That Boy" 
was a boy, not dying at ten, nor hung at twenty years of 
age, but a living, breathing part of the genus homo, of to- 
day. He was born when young, and from babyhood lived 
through till youth, in all its varied attitudes and stages. He 
next aspired to manhood, which he ultimately attained at 
the early age of sixteen, at which time he knew more 
than his father, his mother, and all the world besides. But 
ci that boy" must be restrained; he must learn habits' of labor 
and self-control; his choice must not stand in the way of 
right and duty / his moral character must be developed, 
commencing with home life and home influences, extend- 
ing outward through church associations and school-train- 
ing. The lecture was replete with amusing anecdotes and 
illustrations, which were given in a manner calculated to 
awaken thought and honest inquiry. 

The service closed with the benediction by Rev. Mr. 
Cobb, of Minneapolis. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 85 



ELEVENTH DAY— Saturday, Sept. ist. 

FORENOON. 

6:40. Public worship in the pavilion. The prayer 
service, this beautiful morning, was led by Mr. J. D. 
Blake, Rochester, Minn. The attendance was not very 
large, but those present had come for a purpose, and God 
honored this purpose by strangely warming their hearts. 

9:15. Normal class session. 

Lesson — Ninth of Chautauqua Series. 
Topic — Bible History and Chronology — from Adam to 
Joseph. 

Prof. A. F. Townsend, a.m., Waterloo, Teacher. 

Mr. J. Kissel, of Sterling, 111., opened the session with 
prayer. 

In the successful study of chronology and history, it is 
necessary that we have a foundation on which to build, 
some leading points to fasten in the mind, and about which 
we may cluster facts. Yesterday we had the skeleton, let 
us to-dav clothe it with flesh. Thus — : 





2513 years 
EXO 1491 DUS 



Ad. Cr. 4004. Eve. Cain. Able. 4000 

Serb. 

Enos. 

Canaan. 10 Generations. 



86 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Mahaled 10 Centuries. 

Jared. 
Enoch. 
1656 yrs. Methusaleh. 

Lamech. 
Noah. 
Enoch Trans. 3000 

Childless 500 years. 
Shem. Ham. Japheth. 

Deluge 234S. Ark. Noah and family. 1 yr. 

Arphaxad. 
Asher. Salah. Nimrod. 

Nineveh. Eber. Babel. 

Peleg. 
10 Genera. Reu. 

427 yrs. 5 Cent. Serug. 

Nahor. 
Terah. 

Abram. 2000 

Ab. Call. 1921. Sarah. Lot. Hagar. 

Isaac. Rebecca. Ishmael. 

215 Esau. Jacob. Leah. Rachel. Zilpah. Belha. 

R. S. L. J. D. G. N. A. I. Z. J. B. 
Mg.to Egypt 1706. Joseph. Pharaoh. Jochebed. 

Nile. Burning Bush. Aaron. 

215. Red Sea. 

11 a. m. Second Session of "Christian Temper- 
ance Work." Platform Meeti?ig, 

Services opened with hearty singing of " Ring the Bells 
of Heaven." 

Capt. Merry leading ; Miss Emma Kent at piano, and 

Mr. Williston, of Davenport, at the organ. 

Rev. L. P. Mathews led in prayer. 
"Precious Promise " was then sung. 

Hon. R. H. Gilmore, after making some announce- 
ments, introduced Judge H. W. Maxwell, of DesMoines, 
who had been selected to conduct the exercises. 

Singing "What shall the harvest be?" as very appro- 
priate to the subject in hand. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 87 

The Judge said : 

The seed has been sowed broadcast over our land. The 
harvest has been gathered from year to year. The seeds 
of madness, the seeds of crime have fructified, and what a 
dark harvest has been reaped! 

We are sozving a different kind of seed, and hope for a 
brighter harvest. 

A man may be a temperance man and not a Christian, 
but a man cannot be a Christian and not a temperance 
man. The churches are enlisted in this work. They must 
be. It is a matter of life and death with them. This mon- 
ster is the enemy of mankind, and the churches must strike 
at its root^ or die at its feet. 

Rev. William Cobb, D. D., Minneapolis, Minn. I am 
the oldest Son of Temperance in this State. I have been 
a Son of Temperance for over fifty years. My mother's 
name was Temperance. I remember the day when there 
was not a single temperance organization in the North- 
west. Now they are numbered by the hundreds. I re- 
member when the first temperance lecture was delivered 
in New York. The speaker had to be imported from 
New England. At that meeting a good deacon said, when 
the pledge was presented " I don't want to sign away my 
liberty." But I have lived to see a change. The whole 
Christian church is in arms against the demon Alcohol. 
Prohibition begun early in man's history. Adam was 
prohibited from eating of the fruit from one of the trees. 
At Sinai, the first formula of law given to man is full of 
prohibition, society to-day has plenty of prohibition in 
things outside the liquor traffic. 

Very many things which need not be mentioned are 
prohibited; just think of the things a man may not do. 
Why not include one more? 

The law of reciprocity demands that we should render 
mutual protection. How can the drunkard and the drunk- 
ard-maker fulfill this obligation? 

Mr. G. P. Pinkham, Gen. Agt. State Temperance Al- 
liance, 

Presented the objects, aims, and plans of the Alliance. 



88 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Here was given birth to the Alliance; here it was conse- 
crated to God, and baptized with the tears of drunkards 
who then, at the midnight hour with streaming eyes signed 
the pledge. Thank God the^e pledges have been sacredly 
kept. 

We had found that we were crippled in our temperance 
work for want of means. We formed a joint stock com- 
pany for the purpose of raising and disbursing funds for the 
purpose of disseminating temperance truth and encourag- 
ing temperance effort. 

This organization is not political in its design. It is 
moral. Its work is to save the fallen, to help save from 
falling. 

Benediction by Rev. C. M. Wheat. 

AFTERNOON. 

Owing to the Alumni dinner given by the citizens of 
Clear Lake, there were no services under the pavilion, 
this afternoon excepting 

THE NORMAL CLASS. 

Conducted by Prof. S. N. Fellows, D. D. 

NINTH CHAUTAUQUA LESSON. 
TOPIC: THE TEACHER'S OFFICE AND WORK. 

I. The threefold work of the Sabbath-school Teacher : 

1. He is a worker in a department of the church. 

2. He is a teacher of the Holy Scripture: 

3. He is a Christian builder in that he brings souls to 
Christ and builds up souls in Christ. 

II. The Sabbath-school Teachers Duties: 

1. He should, love* honor, and sustain the pastor. 

2. He should by precept and example urge scholars to 
attend and join in the public and other religious services of 
the church. 

3. He should heartily support and obey the Superin- 
tende?tt. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 89 

4. He should heartily co-operate with the other officers 
and teachers. 

5. He should visit, and, if possible, secure the sympathy 
and co-operation of parents. 

6. He should require his class to unite in the opening 
and closing exercises of the school. 

7. During the recitation hour he should teach. 

To teach is more than to tell, more than to preach — it 
means, to "cause another to knozv." 

The Sabbath-school teacher should do more than this. 
His work is to cause his scholars 

a. To know the right. 

b. To feel the right. 

c. To choose the right. 

d. To do the right. 

A person must know the right before he can feel it; he 
must know and feel before he can choose it. He must 
know, feel and choose in order to do it, 

8. He should greet \ visit and help his scholars out of 
school. 

9. In all this work, he should by prayer and consecra- 
tion secure divine help. 

MODEL TEACHERS' MEETING. 

Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D., Conductor. 

5:00 p. M. i. Invocation. 

2. Roll call, to which teachers responded. 

3. What difficulties have occurred in the study of the 
lesson by the teachers, or will be likely to occur to scholars 
in the class ? In response to this, forty questions were asked 
by the teachers and noted down by the conductor. 

4. Answers to these questions. 

Under this point the conductor took up the questions 
asked by his class, and asked them to the class in order. 



go S. S. ASSEMBLY OE THE NORTH-WEST. 

Before he began, however, he said there could be no dis- 
cussion. 

5. What point will you attempt to enforce in your class ? 
Each teacher spoke of the thought he would make the 

leading one of the lesson. 

The thoughts were then brought together, and a general 
uniformity of teaching agreed upon. 

6. Suggestions and re?narks by the conductor . 

1. I am the teacher, and you my scholars. 

I have asked but few questions; you have asked and 
answered them. This I deem to be the proper method 
with the class, 

2. Teachers' meeting is not the place to study the lesson, 
but the place to bring prepared lessons for the purpose of 
learning how to teach them. 

EVENING. 
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. 

Conducted by Judge Maxwell. 

71^ o'clock. Services opened under the pavilion with 
singing, followed by prayer, by Rev. Mr. Atwater, of Wis- 
consin. 

Singing: "Chide mildly the Erring." 

A few opening remarks were made by Judge Maxwell, 
after which he called upon Chaplain Williams, who re- 
sponded with a few practical thoughts on the relations of 
intemperance to crime. The criminal element is a part of 
the life-blood of the body politic. In answer to the ques- 
tion, " How far is intemperance related to crime?" I would 
say that the source and cause of the majority of crimes is 
intemperance. Crimes may be divided into two classes; 
viz., 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 91 

1st. Crimes of passion, which exert themselves against 
persons. 

2d. Crimes of deliberation, which exert themselves 
against property. 

I. Crimes of passion are prompted in three ways; 
viz., 

1st. By anger. 

2d. By lust. 

3d. By wantonness. 

II. There are tzvo classes of causes for crimes of pas- 
sion; viz., 

1st. Preparatory causes. 

2d. Precipitating causes. 

Whisky is both the predisposing and exciting cause of 
crime. It holds the balance of power in the physical or- 
ganism of those who are addicted to its use. Not only thus 
is it responsible for the production of crime, but is also in- 
strumental in propagating it through generations yet unborn. 
The speaker dwelt at length upon the relation of intem- 
perance to crimes of deliberation, or professional crime. 

Intemperance has to do with this form of crime in three 
ways: 

First. In the production of the criminal class. Profes- 
sional criminals come largely from homes cursed with the 
squalor and degradation which intemperance has produced. 

Second. Intemperance, through the saloon, is respon- 
sible for the propagation of crime. The deadly contagion 
of saloon association has been the moral death of thousands 
upon thousands. Saloons are often literally " dens of 
thieves." 

Third. Intemperance perpetuates professional crime by 
discouraging and dragging down again those who are 
struggling to rise above a life of which they are tired, and 
which they utterly loathe. 



92 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WETT. 

Judge Maxwell spoke of the temperance work in the 
State of Iowa. It has advanced largely during the past 
year, and gave facts and pertinent suggestions in connec- 
tion with the work. At the conclusion of his remarks, 
Dr. Vincent stated that temperance labor should be con- 
tinued in connection with Sunday-school and other Chris- 
tian work. 

Mr. E. C. Chapin sang a solo, " Enter the ark." 
Announcements were then made by Dr. Vincent, who 
also extended thanks to the Baptist church of Clear Lake, 
for the use of their bell during the remainder of the 
assembly. 

8 p. m. Lecture hour. 

ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE TELESCOPE. 
* Rev. E. F. Burr, D. jD., Lyme, Conn. 

AN ABSTRACT. 

The original telescope of Galileo described. — The vari- 
ous improvements since made. — What the instrument now 
is in its best forms, were given as an introduction. 

ITS ACHIEVEMENTS. 

I. It vastly enhances the apparent brilliancy of the 
heavenly bodies. 

The appearance of the sky to eyes of different sizes; 
for example, the average human, the Gunonian, the mythic 
Cyclopean, the Geologic Megalosaurian. The great Ros- 

* Dr. Burr is the distinguished Lecturer on the Scientific Evidences of Christi 
anity at Amherst College. He is more widely known as the author of " Ecce Cce. 
jum," " Pater Mundi," etc. To his works the reader, who would like to prosecute 
the study of the themes of this and the lecture of Monday morning-, Sept. 3d, is 
referred. They may be had of Hitchcock & Walden, or Fairbanks & Co., pub- 
ishers of this book, Chicago. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 93 

sian telescope beholds the sky with an eye six feet in 
diameter, which collects from a star 250,000 times as much 
light as does the average human eye. The brilliant ap- 
pearance in it of Sirius, the great Cluster in Hercules, etc. 
Not always that our most brilliant views of an object 
are the truest ; but so in the case of the heavens and their 
Author. 

2. It locates the heavenly bodies with wonderful ac- 
curacy. 

The star-maps of Hipparchus, Ptolemy, and Tycho 
Brahe contrast with our present maps, which give the 
places of the stars to within one hundredth of a second of 
the true. This great accuracy is due to telescopes, and 
they are the source of many important discoveries besides. 

3. It marvellously unveils some heavenly bodies long- 
familiarly known / viz., the earth, moon, sun and jive 

planets. 

The geography of pre-telescopic times was exceeding 
scanty. Our greatly superior information is due largely 
to the telescope, which gives us all our accurate coast sur- 
veys by means of triangulation ; all our safe voyaging on 
the high seas by means of the Nautical Almanac, which is 
founded ultimately on telescopic observations ; and all our 
precise determination of the size and shape of the earth, 
by its aid in measuring arcs of the meridian in different 
latitudes. 

What does the naked eye tell of the moon? The tel- 
escope shows an earthlike body cast up into a tremendous 
Switzerland, without water or atmosphere, always pre- 
senting the same surface to us ; and hence rotating in a 
lunar month, etc. 

The naked eye reveals little of the sun, contrasted with 
what is shown by the telescope of a tempestuous ocean of 



94 s - s - ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

molten matter, traversed by mysterious spots, casting im-. 
mense jets into an atmosphere of less heated material, and 
consisting of elements, some fourteen of which exist in 
our earth. This last fact is told directly by the spectro- 
scope, which however is really a child of the telescope. 

What the ancients knew of five planets is insignificant 
when contrasted with what the telescope now tells of the 
earthy character, rotations and atmospheres of all of these; 
of the phases and mountains of Mercury and Venus; of 
the lands and seas and three moons of Mars; of the belts 
and four moons of Jupiter, with their great lesson as to the 
velocity of light; of the splendid rings and eight moons 
of Saturn. 

4. It shows us a countless nu?nber of new heavenly 
bodies. 

But a small number of distinct stars are shown by the 
naked eye. Present telescopes show twenty new moons, 
two new large planets, more than one hundred and- sixty 
asteroids, an indefinite number of comets, eighteen millions 
of stars in the Milky Way, near six thousand other objects 
which are confessed Milky Ways, and Baconian evidence 
of others beyond estimate. It is the greatest Columbus 
the world has yet seen. 

5. It shows the heavenly bodies placed on a scale of 
wonderful vastness. 

Only the relative distances of some of the celestial bodies 
were known before the telescope. The absolute distances 
of many are shown by the telescope by its determination 
of the earth's diameter, and of celestial parallaxes. Ex- 
amples of such distances in the solar system and beyond, 
and illustratisns of the immensity of these distances were 
here given. 

6. It shows these heavenly bodies to be of wonderful 
size and nature. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 95 

The prevailing idea, till Galileo, was the small size of stars 
as compared with the earth. The telescope has refuted 
such ideas by determining the actual size of many celestial 
bodies of known distances by means of their apparent 
diameters, or proportion of light to that of our sun. For ex- 
amples of the enormous dimensions of some bodies in the 
Solar System, but especially among fixed stars, and illus- 
trations of these magnitudes, see " Ecce Ccelum." The 
spectroscope shows all the stars to be suns composed of 
materials similar to those in our sun. 

7. It shozvs the heavenly bodies to be wonderfully in 
motion among themselves. 

The ideas of three centuries ago, contrasted with our 
present knowledge of the celestial motions by means of the 
telescope, show how crude they were. Seven hundred 
orbital motions among the fixed stars are observed. Many 
other motions are apparently rectilinear. The gradual sep- 
aration of stars in Hercules and drawing together in Virgo 
— the extension of the doctrine of gravity to the fixed stars, 
is due to telescopic observations on the double stars, and so 
a proof that no star can be at rest. The motion is univer- 
sal, constant, swift, in all directions, and yet never found 
resulting in any collision. Illustrations show the wonder- 
fulness of this. 

8. It shows the heavenly bodies universally arranged 
in wonderful system, 

The old ideas, including those of Tycho Brahe, are con- 
futed. The apparently confused mass of shining bodies 
has been analyzed by the telescope into satellite systems, 
planetary systems, solar systems, etc. The great size, com- 
plexity, perturbations, and yet perfect stability of these 
systems can be demonstrated. 



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CONCLUSION. 

1. This account of some of the achievements of the 
telescope only includes what is established astronomy. 

An extensive border-land of doubtful speculation or worse 
belongs to every science. 

2. // may not seem a wonderful account to many of 
you. 

This is the natural effect of early and long familiarity 
with such things. 

3. But it xvould have seemed wonderful to fire-telescopic 
?nen. 

How enthusiastically they would have deported them- 
selves if the Nuncius Siderius of Galileo had suddenly 
brought them all these facts in a convincing way. 

4. We should try to " fiut ourselves in their placeP 
The faculty for doing this is as common as that for get- 
ting absorbed in a novel. When done, all the wonders of 
the most extravagant fiction and Arabian Nights pale be- 
fore the astronomical facts. 

5. Marvellous as have been the additions to our astroii- 
o??iy by means of the telescope,! expect vast additions still. 

The astronomical field is inexhaustible, and explorers are 
more numerous, skillful, and adventurous than ever. 

6. A7id I expect that each addition, when once it has 
fairly taken place as such, will help the doctrine of the 
supernatural and revealed religion. 

The general effect of past discoveries shows that mature 
science is a " militia of Jesus Christ." 

7. Yet I do not a?zticipate, however glorious the addi- 
tions may be, anything- that will coupel faith in God and 
His word. 

A brilliant line of Christian scientists offsets aline of un- 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 97 

devout and unbelieving men, in whom no conceivable won- 
ders in the sky would assure faith. Unwilling hearts are 
almighty against evidence. Religion is the only basis for 
a scientific millennium. 



TWELFTH DAY— Sunday, Sept. 2d. 
FORENOON. 

640 A. m. Public Worship in charge of Mr. E. C. 
Chapin, Davenport. A large number are present, and 
everything conspires to make this a grand meeting. The 
opening hymn was "I need Thee every Hour." 

Love was announced as the theme. 

Mr. Chapin then gave out texts of Scripture, and as 
they were read by those to whom they were assigned he 
commented on and enforced them. A highly profitable 
prayer service followed, which was closed with benedic- 
tion by Rev. B. Blain, of Wells, Minn. 

SECOND MODEL SUNDAY-SCHOOL. 

OFFICERS. 
Pastor, 
Rev. I. Crook, D. D., Jacksonville, 111. 

Superintendent, 
Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D., New York, Ed. S. S. Journal. 

Assistant Superintendent, 
Prof. A. F. Townsend, A. M., Waterloo, Iowa. 

Secretary, 
Mr. Geo. W. Harbin, Waterloo, Iowa. 

Chorister, 
Capt. J. F. Merry, Manchester, Iowa. 

Ushers, 
Mr. Jay Andrews, Ravenna, Ohio; Mr. E. A. Snyder, 



98 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Cedar Falls, Iowa; Mr. J. E. Cohenour, Forest City, 
Iowa; Rev. J. A. Ward, Clermont, Iowa; Mr. John Fair- 
banks, Chicago, Ills.; Mr. J. G. Evans, Niagara Falls, N. 
Y.; Rev. F. X. Miller, Hampton, Iowa; Mr. C. E. Brain- 
ard, Brainard, Iowa; Rev. T. Easton Fleming, North- 
wood, Iowa. 

Teachers. 

No. 1. Mrs. S. T. Delevan, Hopkinton, Iowa. 

No. 2. Rev. E. Corwin, D. D., Jacksonville, 111. 

No. 3. Rev. J. R. Berry, Waterloo, Iowa. 

No. 4. Mrs. A. F. Townsend, Waterloo, Iowa. 

No. 5. Mrs. L. C. Gibbs, Cedar Falls, Iowa. 

No. 6. Mrs. S. B. Brainard, Brainard, Iowa. 

No. 7. Rev. J. L. Coppoc, Clear Lake, Iowa. 

No. 8. Mrs. E. D. Adams, Waterloo, Iowa. 

No. 9. Prof. S. N. Fellows, D. D., Iowa City, Iowa. 

No. 10. Rev. D. Sheffer, Manchester, Iowa. 

No. 11. Rev. S. W. Heald, McGregor, Iowa. 

No. 12. Mr. E. S. Chapin, Davenport, Iowa. 

No. 13. Prof. M. M. Gilchrist, Clear Lake, Iowa. 

No. 14. Mr. D. B. Sandfbrd, Independence, Iowa. 

No. 15. Mr. J. D. Blake, Rochester, Minn. 

No. 16. Miss Martha Hayes. 

No. 17. Mrs. J. E. Foster, Clinton, Iowa. 

No. 18. Mr. S. E. Waterbury, Fayette, Iowa. 

No. 19. Rev. H. I. Crist, Austin, Minn. 

No. 20. Mrs. F. M. Robertson, Waverly, Iowa. 

The Sabbath-school was preceded by a Teachers' and 
Officers' prayer-meeting of fifteen minutes. At the tap of 
the bell for opening school, the door of the pavilion was 
promptly closed. All late coiners were permitted to go 
into the gallery. Promptness is insisted upon as essential 
to good work. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 99 

MODEL PROGRAMME. 

. f I. Scripture Reading and Invocation by the Pastor, 
Rev. I. Crook, D. D. 

2. Singing. "A charge to keep," two verses. 

3. Roll call. 

4. Invocation. 

5. Lesson — Study — 30 minutes. 

6. Song. 

7. Review by the Superintendent. 

8. Song. 

9. "School System" study in classes. Seven minutes. 

10. Review of "School System." 

11. Suggestion on "Temperance" and "Missionary 
work" as brought before us in the lesson. 

12. Song. 

13. Pastor's Remarks. 
14.. Announcements. 

15 Distribute books and papers. 
16. Closing words — [23d Psalm]. 

The book used for singing was "Welcome Tidings," 
the excellent publication of Fairbanks & Co., Chicago. 

MODEL SECRETARY'S REPORT. 

Record of the Sunday-school of Clear Lake. Sunday- 
school Assembly, 9, a. m., Sunday, Sept. 2d, 1877. 

School called to order by Supt. Rev. J. H. Vincent, 
D. D. 

Reading Scripture and invocation by the Pastor, Rev. 
I. Crook, D. D. 

Singing two verses of a church hymn and a brief invo- 
cation by the Superintendent. 

Calling Roll of officers and teachers. All were present. 

Classes studied the lesson for thirty minutes, "without 
interruption." 



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NUMBER PRESENT. 

Officers and Teachers, 26; Ushers, 9; Scholars in Main 
School, 334; Senior Intermediate, 41 ; Primary, 35; Lec- 
ture Class, 88; Visitors, 85; Total, 618. 

The lesson hour having expired, two verses of "Nothing 
but the Blood of Jesus" was sung. 

Review of the lesson and blackboard exercises by the 
Superintendent. 

Singing "Precious Promise" — two verses. 

Three minutes spent by the classes in exercise in the 
"School System." 

Questions on the same by the Superintendent. 

Remarks by the Supt. on the Evils of Intemperance 
and the methods of Christian work against it, also on the 
Missionary cause. 

Singing one verse of "Rock of Ages" by the school. 

Remarks by the Pastor on the lesson and its associa- 
tions, the influence of the school and our duty to the Mis- 
sionary cause. 

Reading Secretary's Report. 

Announcement of church services by the Supt. He 
also stated that the distribution of books and papers and 
taking collection would be in order if in his home school. 

Closing service, Reading 23d Psalm by Supt., the 
school supplying omitted words and verses. 

Invocation and Benediction by the Superintendent. 

George W. Harbin, Secy. 

SECOND SERMON BY DR. NEWMAN, 

OF METROPOLITAN CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

11 A. M. Preaching Service opened with an anthem by 
the choir. 

Rev. Wm. Cobb, D. D., led in prayer. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. IOI 

Rev. E. Corwin, D, D., read the 19th Psalm. 

" There is a fountain rilled with blood," was sung. 

Rev. jf. P. Newman, D. D., having been recalled at the 
general desire of the people who heard his eloquent ser- 
mon of last Sunday, was upon the platform to preach his 
second discourse. 

Text.— John 11:28. 

Theme. — " The great mission of the believer as an in- 
strument in saving sinners." 

The boldest proposition ever suggested to the human 
mind, was the project of converting the world. It has no 
parallel in history. 

The design of Alexander to subdue the world by force 
of arms, or of Caesar to unify all human governments into 
one, pale into insignificance when compared with it. 

Standing by the Jordan, Christ showed the method by 
which he designed to do the work. 

He called Andrew, Andrew called Philip, and Philip 
called Nathaniel. 

We will discuss this subject under two points. 

I. The workers. 

1. The power of individuality. 

We meet this power at every turn. 

It is recognized when we divide the world into bene- 
factors and malefactors. The first we honor, the second 
we despise. 

We never admire or censure men in groups. We trace 
all benevolent as well as all malevolent movements to 
individuals. 

Jeroboam will ever be held responsible for the disrup- 
tion of Israel. 

Voltaire was responsible for the public sentiment and 
conscience which made the horrors of the French revo- 
lution possible. 



102 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

The Germanic reformation was born in the heart of a 
solitary monk. 

The American revolution received its inspiration from 
the stirring eloquence of Patrick Henry. 

Salvation comes from the man Christ Jesus. 

God has ordained that life must answer for life, and that 
mind acts on mind. 

There is a community in virtue and vice. It is impos- 
sible to so segregate men that they shall not have influence 
one upon another. 

This influence shall roll on till the cycles of time shall 
break on the shores of eternity. 

Virtue and vice are transmissible. Society is what we 
make it. This is the initial factor in the great problem. 

2. In harmony with this thought God employs human 
age7tcies for the evangelization of the world. 

These agencies are general and special. 

The Bible holds to the idea that all should, in some 
manner, be useful. 

There is no escape from the solemn responsibility God 
has laid on every man. But beside the general duties, 
there are special labors which demand special instruments. 
These may be divided into three classes. 

a. Those who have a miraculous birth. 

Cyrus was named two hundred and fifty years before he 
was born. 

b. Those who are subjects of special care in childhood. 
Moses was an especial subject of providence. 

c. With neither of the above, some men have had 
special schooling for their work. 

Peter, James and John had a special training for their 
mission as witnesses of Christ's life, teachings and resur- 
rection. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF'THE NORTH-WEST. IO3 

When God would have the proud Pharaoh confronted, 
he sent Moses. When an infant church was to be con- 
firmed, and letters were to be written for all time, Saul of 
Tarsus was called. When ignorance, like a pall of death, 
sat upon the mediaeval church, when the priest was igno- 
rant and the pope was godless, the Monk of Erfurth was 
called to unlock the spiritual dungeons of the earth. 

He raised a Washington for a new republic; a Wesley 
for a new reformation ; a Mivart to oppose the infidel 
science across the sea. 

Here occurred a conclusive and masterly refutation of the 
position of the evolutionists, which we would be glad to 
insert had we space. 

3. The distribution and variety of endow ?nents for use- 
fulness. 

a. Where a great end is to be accomplished, there is the 
concentration of the intellectuality of a dozen ordinary 
great men, subject to one will and conscience. 

There has been but one Bacon, one Homer, one Milton, 
one Shakspeare, one Paul. 

b % Two or more are called, who are to be the supple- 
ment and the converse of each other. 

One cannot be all and do all. 

In the Wesleyan movement, Whitefield was the soul, 
Wesley the system. Whitefield had no patience with ec- 
clesiastical machinery ; Wesley was never more at home 
than when organizing or presiding over an annual con- 
ference. 

Whitefield could not have been Whitefield without Wes- 
ley, and Wesley could not have been Wesley without 
Whitefield. 

c. The faithful and conscientious use of one talent, 
though small, may lead to the grandest results. 



I04 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF* THE NORTH-WEST. 

You may not excuse yourself because not a Paul, or a 
Bacon, or because a Wesley without your Whitfield, or vice 
versa* 

One of the greatest evils of to-day is spiritual pride. 
There are too many who will not work unless they can be 
leaders. 

I pronounce no reprobation upon true leaders. 

Here the speaker paid a glowing tribute to Moody as 
an evangelist, to Cook as a champion of truth against in- 
fidelity, to Murphy in his warfare against intemperance, 
and Vincent in his Sunday-school work. But he depre- 
cated the disposition of pseudo-leaders to crowd themselves 
to the front. 

While there are some who injure the cause by unseemly 
forwardneess, many more under-estimate themselves, and, 
therefore, are inactive. 

You may not be a ponderous folio, but you may be a 
duodecimo; if you can't be a duodecimo, be a tract going 
on a mission of good; but if you can't be a tract, you cer- 
tainly can be a tract-peddler. 

Here the speaker gave the mighty results which followed 
the reading of Bibb's little tract, " The Bruised Reed," but 
argued that the greatest share of the praise belonged to 
the tract-peddler, who laid the tract on the table of Rich- 
ard Baxter's father. Some of the best church-workers 
have done their work out of sight. 

How true this is of the mother, noble woman, who has 
trained up her children to be strong men of God. 

When, at the last day, names now familiar because of 
great deeds are emblazoned on the throne of God, they 
will not be alone, but among them will be the names of 
some now to fame unknown. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. I05 

II. But man must be qualified for God's work. 

1. He must himself be saved; he must be able to say, 
"We speak that we do know." 

3. He must have a profound sympathy with those out of 
Christ. 

This must be genuine sympathy; that kind which comes 
from a deep conviction of the justice of God, a judgment 
to come, an endless hell for the unsaved sinner, and that 
those who are to be saved must be saved soon. 

2. There must be a consecrvation to soul-saving. 
Purity and power are not inseparable. Some of the 

purest and best of earth have but little power. Purity is 
subjective, power objective. He who would be a power in 
soul-saving must consecrate himself to the work. 

This is the great evangelistic era of the world. Within 
the next twenty-five years there will be a world's evange- 
listic convention, which wiil gather in some great center 
the evangelists from every quarter of the globe, to discuss 
the best means of bringing all to Christ. 

Three resolutions will be passed by this convention — 
. 1. All men are brothers. 

2. Christ is the personal Saviour of each man. 

3. All men for Christ, and Christ for all men. 
"Hallelujah 'tis done" was sung. 

Rev. J. H. Lozier then took the stand and made a state- 
ment of the financial condition of S. S. Assembly of the 
North-west, and followed it with a plain unvarnished 
statement of the f;;cts with regard to which many false 
statements had got into the press of the North-west. This 
statement fully exonerated the Camp Meeting Associa- 
tion from any charge of either mismanagement or chican- 
ery. The financial affairs showed a deficit of $400.00, 



Io6 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST, 

which was immediately raised, leaving the Sabbath-school 
Assembly without a dollar of debt. 

Rev. Reece Wolf pronounced the benediction. 

AFTERNOON. 

PREACHING SERVICE. 

Sermon by Rev. J. Crook, D. D. 

3 o'clock. Services opened, under the pavilion, by sing- 
ing "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." Prayer was offered 
by Rev. Mr. Jamison — Reading of Scripture — -73d Psalm 
by Dr. Vincen. owed by singing "What shall the har- 
vest be." The sermon was then delivered by Rev. I. 
Crook, D. D., of Jacksonville, 111., from the double text 
found in Job 14: 14, and Math. 25: 46: "If a man die, shall 
he live again," "And then shall go away into everlasting 
punishment: but tne righteous into life eternal." 

The question in the text, "If a man die shall he live 
again," presents itself to every man. 

The words of Christ, not only answer the question, 
but indicate the fact, that a future life is of a two-fold na- 
ture. On the one hand is presented eternal life, and on the 
other, everlasting punishment. Both are of endless dura- 
tion, as indicated by the terms "eternal" and "everlasting," 
which were synonymous with each other. 

It is a trial of our faith to look out upon the world as it 
presents itself to-day, and contemplate the work that lies 
before us, as Christian laborers. The speaker alluded to 
the dark and ignorant minds, degraded in both body and 
soul, that inhabit different parts of the globe, and said, that 
it was a trial of our faith to believe that they would live 
again in another state of existence. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. I07 

He also referred to many of the scenes and occurrences 
that fall to the common lot of humanity as being the means 
of the trial of our faith. 

The external evidence of the immortality of the soul is 
derived from two sources; viz., 

1. From scientific research. 

2. From divine revelation. 

There are also internal evidences in the soul, the witness 
or self-con<ciousness of its existence, implanted by the 
Creator within man. The moral sense of the soul is also 
testifying to this great fact, while the religious .nature of 
our being intuitively asserts its own immortality. 

While these witnesses are all of them outside of revela- 
tion, they are, nevertheless, the voice of God. But men do 
not always discern the difference between these internal 
evidences and revelation itself. There is a danger of ignor- 
ing the word of God at the present day, and of placing too 
much reliance upon the conscience, measuring our thoughts, 
words and actions by its dictation, in utter neglect of its 
growth and development by the study of the word of God. 
While all these internal evidences only present a dim, dark 
outline of the future life, revelation sets forth the same in 
its awful reality, showing the joy, peace and final triumph 
of the righteous, and the remorse, shame and utter con- 
tempt of the wicked, in both the old and new testament 
scriptures. The speaker, in making allusion to these two 
phases of future life, spoke of an endless progression in 
each direction, one or other of which every son and daughter 
of Adam was pursuing. 

The speaker then dwelt at some length upon these two 
grand divisions of human life, as set forth in the scriptures, 
showing on the one hand the punishment of those who are 
finally impenitent; and on the other the glorious reward 



108 S. S. ASSEMBLY OE THE NORTH-WEST. 

of those who, through faith, accept the offers of mercy 
The discourse was interspersed with anecdotes thoroughly 
illustrative of the thoughts under consideration. 

The services closed by singing, with the benediction by 
Rev. Mr. Crook. 

EVENING. 

SONG AND PRAISE MEETING. 

Conducted by Capt. J. F. Merry. 

7 o'clock. The services opened by singing " Near the 
Cross. Prayer was offered by Rev. J. A. Ward, followed 
fay singing " The Great Physician now is near." 

Capt. Merry made a few opening remarks, in which he 
praised God for the interest taken in Bible study. Words 
of response were now called for. A brother praised God 
that he was permitted to work in His cause. Sister Delavan 
praised God for the precious services of this Sabbath-day. 
A brother praised God for what he had done for him, 
through the instrumentality of this assembly. Another 
brother for the cleansing power of the gospel, followed by 
singing. 

Brother Berry desired to bear a word of testimony. He 
had a song of deliverance and praise that he would gladly 
sing. That through these hours of preparation and toil, 
God's grace had sweetly kept him, and he had felt His 
overruling Providence, which had caused all things to 
work for good and for the glory of His great name. That 
the work of this assembly was not for an hour, or a day, 
but its influences would widen and deepen as time rolled 
on. 

A brother praised God for that religion that breaks forth 
in joyful song. Another for personal salvation. Another 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. I09 

for Christian experience. Brother Cobb for the promise, 
" Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain 
thee." Singing u I am coming to the Cross." 

A brother from Chicago praised God that he had been 
permitted to live beyond the common period alloted to 
man. That during this meeting he seemed to be living 
over the precious times which he experienced last winter 
under Mr. Moody's preaching. Singing "O! think of a 
home over there." 

Sister Keeler praised God that she ever found the Savior, 
and that, too, in early life, and that now, in later years, she 
had received the full blessing of Christian experience. She 
felt that Christ was indeed the light and joy of her soul. 

Brother Lozier praised God for the share he had in all 
these blessings which the rest of the brothers and sisters 
had been praising God for to-night. 

Brother Ward, for the means which are being exerted 
in behalf of the unsaved. Brother Miller praised God for 
His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children 
of men. 

Brother Wheat praised God for the Sunday-school As- 
sembly of the North-west, which seeks to cultivate us 
spiritually as well as intellectually. 

Chaplain Williams praised God that he had any part in 
Tesus, and in pointing out the way of salvation to the lost. 

Brother Wolfe, for the fullness he found in Christ. 

Singing, u The light of the world is Jesus." 

Mrs. Pollard (" Kate Harrington") now read an original 
poem in memory of P. P. Bliss. 

Prof. Fellows praised God for salvation, and for the 
privilege of being a co-worker with Christ. 

Sister Aldrich, that she could work for Jesus, and that 
his grace was sufficient for her. 



IIO S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

A brother, for a mother's prayers, and her sweet Chris- 
tian influence. 

Brother Smedley rejoiced in a personal religious ex- 
perience. 

Brother Berry spoke of the extent of country which this 
assembly represented. Also of the money raised in behalf 
of the work in India, showing that the assembly is not alto- 
gether selfish in its Christian labors. 

Brother Lozier spoke of the deno?ninational extent of 
the assembly, which he thought ought not to be over- 
looked. 

Capt. Merry closed the remarks by referring to the labor 
performed in behalf of Sunday-schools in the third district 
of Iowa. Wanted to know that souls were being born, 
into the kingdom. Asked all w T ho loved the Savior to 

rise, to which the majority of the audience responded. 
After which prayer was ofFerd, closing by singing " My 
faith looks up to Thee." 

SABBATH EVE— TWELFTH DAY. 

PREACHING SERVICE. 

Sermon by Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D. 

8 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Vincent now delivered an interest- 
ing discourse upon Faith, its nature, processes and power, 
from the text found in Eph : 2. 8. ct By grace are ye saved, 
through faith." The divine influence, in connection with 
faith, was set forth by means of scriptural statements, and 
helpful illustrations. A few points only are here noted. 
What sight is to the painter,jfa/M is to the saint. As the 
painter beholds through the medium of sight some natural 
object of interest, seizes upon the impressions made upon 
his soul, and produces a likeness of the same upon paper 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. Ill 

or canvass, so, by faith, the believer, closing the natural 
eye, beholds the invisible — appropriates and transfers the 
realities into his own soul, and produces a picture of that 
which he beheld, giving to him the divine character. The 
condition of the artist without sight would truly illustrate 
the condition of the Christian without faith. 

Salvation, Grace and Faith are all the gifts of God, for 
which all glory should be given to Him. Faith exercises 
itself upon certain facts which are pre-eminently the gift 
of God. All history is but the work of an over-ruling 
Providence, of the divine power and will, products of His 
thoughts, and His plans. One might, by faith, apprehend 
all the forces of nature, and still not affect the heart, but 
when that heart comes, burdened and anxious, to that bit 
of history that reveals the last hours of Christ it experiences 
love, and peace and joy. God is not only the author of 
faith and history, bnt the author of the peculiar circum- 
stances that bring us to Christ. Every human life is under 
the moral government of God. The difference between 
the moral and coercive governments of God was clearly 
set forth. Coercion uses force, while the moral govern- 
ment uses persuasion. Our God tries to win the heart to 
voluntary service and obedience. 

Men are sinners but do not know it. It is one thing to 
know it speculatively and another to know it consciously. 

It is a part of the divine plan to allure us from false loves 
unto the pure love of God. A man can never resolve in 
his own strength. May have a temporary faith, but only 
to find that it is self-righteous — which has to be taken 
down — and when this is done, we look up and find a lov- 
ing face. 

Objects of our affection are very often removed to draw 
us closer to Christ. Every disappointment, every bereave- 



112 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WETT. 

ment, every trial, care or pain was of divine origin, and 
while we cry out against them they are only the instru- 
ments in His hands for leading us to Him. 

The Holy Spirit is the gift of God. There is a differ- 
ence between an intellectual faith and a faith of the heart. 
A touch of the heart, by the Spirit, makes it feel the want 
of salvation. Men are responsible for faith. They are 
commanded to believe, and are condemned for the want of 
it. Faith is not arbitrary. Did not know the philosophy 
of faith. Still believed that there was a philosophy in it. 
If men act up to the light they have, their faith will in- 
crease until they are able to apprehend by personal ex- 
perience all the fullness of God's salvation through Christ. 



THIRTEENTH DAY— Monday, Sept. 30. 
FORENOON- 

The morning, bright, cool and clear, gave promise of a 
great day for the assembly. 

6:40 Prayer Meeting .led. by Mr. S. W. Myers, was 
opened with singing " What a Friend we have in Jesus." 
After prayer, Heb. iv. 9-16 was read. The season of 
prayer was was interspered with song and exhortation. 

9:15 Normal Class session. 

Prof. A. F. Townsend, A. M., Conductor. 

Lesson 10. Section 1. Topic — Bible History and 
Chronology, from Joseph to St. John. 

By means of a large chart prepared by himself, the Pro- 
fessor gave a connected view of the leading characters, 
patriots, prophets, priests and kings of Bible history, down 
to the close of the apostolic period. This chart presented 
to the glance of the eye the period to which each person 



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belonged, the length of time each lived, their comparative 
ages and much other interesting matter. The Bible stu- 
dent is referred to this chart, published elsewhere. For 
use in the Sunday-school it can easily be enlarged on heavy 
paper and made very serviceable in lectures or general 
teaching. 

11 A. M. Lecture hour, was introduced by singing, "O 
how He Loves," followed with prayer by Dr. Vincent. 

* DID THE WORLDS BUILD THEMSELVES? 
Rev, E. F. Burr, Lyme, Conn. 

AN ABSTRACT. 

The vast number of worlds; their arrangement into 
systems and the architectural elaborateness and grandeur 
of many of these systems, e. g. the Milky Way, beggar 
description. 

WHO BUILT THESE CELESTIAL TEMPLES? 

m 

Some say, They built themselves — meaning that the 
atoms of which they are composed, were so diffused as to 
be free to move among themselves; and that these, in vir- 
tue simply of their own forces and laws, gradually 
came together into worlds and systems of worlds. Ampli- 
fication of these views may be found in the Nebular 
Hypothesis. 

I. Arguments for the Nebular Hypothesis. 

1. Its agreements with certain facts in the earth and 
solar system, e. g. the shape of the earth ; geological proofs 
of ancient fusion; nearly circular form of some planetary 

* Those who desire to further pursue the subject of this lecture, of which we 
have space for but the merest outline, are referred to the author's able and inter- 
esting- work- ' Pater Mundi," which can be had of Fairbanks & Co., or Hitchcock 
& Walden, Chicago, at very low prices ; or '" The Modern Genesis " by Rev. W 
B. Slaughter, published by Hitchcock & Walden, Chicago. 



114 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

orbits; small divergence of their planes from the sun's 
equator, etc. 

Answer, No hypothsis so poor as not to have many 
points of agreement with fact. A shoe or coat may be a 
very trying misfit and yet touch you at many points. A 
stick may be very crooked and very poorly express the 
general curvature of the earth, and yet fit its surface at 
various points. Edinburgh is like ancient Athens in many 
particulars, but yet is a very different place. 

2. Its agreement with certain observed facts among 
the Nebulce. As spectroscope and spectra-gaseous spectra 
of some nebulae. Some nebular forms agree with the 
various stages of world-growth supposed in the Nebular 
Hypothesis, viz., a mist with a central nucleus, a nucleus 
within a ring, a ring with one or more nuclei, etc. 

I. Answer. (i)As to the special nebular for ms-these agree 
just as well with the idea that all the nebuloe are clusters 
of stars / for we know that such clusters exist in all sorts 
of forms, and indeed in some of the particular forms 
alleged, e. g. the Ring Nebula in Lyra. 

(2). As to the gaseous spectra — these do not show that 
the nebulae giving them are so many continuous fire clouds 
The solid herbium gives the gaseous spectrum, and some 
gases under high pressure and temperature give the con- 
tinuous spectra of burning solids. Known stars and clus 
ters of stars give gaseous spectra, for example, three star 
in Cygnus, the Dumb Bell Nebula in Vulpecula, the Crab 
Nebula in Taurus. Also, dim continuous spectra are found 
underlying some gaseous, and may yet be found under all, 
as in the case of the great Nebula in Orion. Fire clouds 
could not be seen so far, would not have such permanent 
irregularities of outline and surface-aspect as we see, would 
alter in size and brightness very fast, would never be 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 115 

sharply defined and uniformly bright throughout as are the 
planetary nebulae which give gaseous spectra. 

(3). Even if each nebula giving the gaseous spectrum 
is a continuous fire cloud, it is not such ajire cloud as is 
needed for the natural manufacture of worlds / because 
containing, according to the spectroscope, but three ele- 
ment, viz., hydrogen, nitrogen, and one unknown substance. 

II. Positive arguments against the Nebular 
Hypothesis. 

Preliminaries. Comets and the August and Novem- 
ber meteors are not foreigners naturalized in the solar sys- 
tem — each stellar system, however large, must, according 
to the Nebular Hypothesis^ have come from a single fire 
cloud. 

The Hypothesis may be shown in detail to be inconsis- 
tent with the present heat of our sun, the eccentric orbits, 
and orbital planes of many comets and the retrograde 
motions of not a few members of the solar system. Espec- 
ially it may be shown to be inconsistent with certain facts 
in the stellar systems; for example, the existence of huge 
visible stellar systems, the absence of dominant central 
orbs in them, the fact that the systems seldom, if ever, fade 
away as to light from the center outward, the great diver- 
gence and eccentricities of the orbits in most systems, and 
the various chemistries within the same system, as shown 
by the various spectra. 

Conclusion. 

1. Summing up against the Nebular Hypothesis. 

2. Its religious bearings as shown by its history and fhe 
Newtonian principles of philosophizing. 

3. The measure and explanation of its present accep- 
tance among scientists. 



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There are fashions in scientific speculation as well as in 
dress and the former like the latter, are largely importa- 
tions from unbelieving countries. The human proneness 
to hasty generalizations was here forcibly illustrated, and 
the natural inclination of men to be without God in the 
world proven. Occasionally there are backslidings in 
philosophy as well as in religion. A brief account of sci- 
entific mistakes from the Ptolemaic system downward, de- 
monstrated that science has been and may again be mis- 
taken. 

AFTERNOON. 

NORMAL CLASS CONVERSATION. 
Led by Dr. Vincent. 

2 :3c Some of the benefits arising from the normal 
class, are here enumerated, viz: 

1. Increases zeal for Bible study. 

2. Systematizes study, 

3. Supplies teachers. 

4. Improves methods of teaching. 

5. Begets habits of study. 

6. Improves ministers. 

7. Elevates the standard of the school. 

8. Bromotes sympathy. 

9. Educates and instructs the church. 
Some of the difficulties in the way of normal classes, \xA 

thinly settled sections of the country, viz: 

1. Lack of good teachers. 

2. Non-attendance of pupils. 

3. Lack of time. 

4. Other meetings, and gatherings, of the church. 

5. Distance from place of meeting. 

6. Want of disposition, and will. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 117 

7. Absence of the pastor. 

8. Lack of other helps. 

9. Interference of secular labors in summer. 

10. Lack of studious habits. 

11. Impression that large numbers are necessary to hold 
a successful normal class. 

NORMAL CLASS. 
Led by Prof. A. F. Townsend, A. M. 
TENTH CHAUTAUQUA LESSON. 

The Sabbath-school Section. 

Topic: The Week-day Work of the Superinendent 

As each of the following week-day duties is read, let the 
question be asked: 1. How does this duty also apply to 
teachers? 2. How may both superintendent and teachers 
secure the performance of these duties? 

WEEK-DAY DUTIES OF THE SABBATH-SCHOOL SUPER- 
INTENDENT. 

i. He should every day illustrate, in his life, the Chris- 
tian duties of which he is the exponent. [At home and in 
business^ 

2. He should every day fray for his teachers. 

3. He should every day fray for his pupils, especially 
those who are most deeply concerned about their souls. 

4. He should frequently correspond with teachers and 
pupils. [The "electrical pen," the "papyrograph,"* the 
" postal card," the "printing-press," will facilitate this.] 

5. He should as frequently as possible call at the homes 

*See advertising pages for description of the Papyrograph and 
what Dr. Vincent says of it. 



Il8 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WETT. 

of his teachers, and, in case of illness, at the homes of his 
pupils. 

6. He should adopt a system of judicious tract distri- 
bution among both teachers and pupils. 

7 # He should thoroughly study every lesson, and, as far 
as possible,|from the stand-point of his teachers. 

8. He should maintain a weekly teachers'* meeting for 
the illustration of the best methods of teaching each 
week's lesson. 

9. He should organize and secure the best possible in- 
struction for a normal class, to raise np teachers for the 
future. 

10. He should read up the literature of the Sunday- 
school work. 

11. He should frequently consult with other super- 
intendents. 

12. He should often attend Sabbath-school conventions, 
institutes, etc. 

13. He should regularly attend the prayer -meetings, 
etc., of his own Church. 

14. He should frequently visit and consult with his 
pastor. 

EVENING. 

BIBLE AND SONG SERVICE. 

Conducted by Hon. R. H. Gilmore, 

Theme: "Christ our Exemplar." 

7 o'clock. The service opened by singing, " Precious 
name." Prayer was offered by Prof. Fellows — Singing 
"AH the Way my Saviour Leads Me." Some of the 
thoughts suggestive are here given: (1) Christ is our ex- 
emplar, not only in general, but in detail. Matt. 11:29. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. II9 

(2) We must be actively engaged in the service, Luke 
2:49. (3) The nature of the service, Luke 19:10. (4) 
We must have faith in the work, to obtain results. Matt. 
19:14. (5) We must win by love, not mere sentiment. 
1st John, 3 : 1 8. (6) Genuine love shows itself in sympathy. 
John 11: 33,35. (7) Love and sy 7?i fat hy beget patience. 
1 Pet. 2; 21, 23. (8) We must cultivate the social 
qualities. Luke 19:5. (9) Entertain at home, and else- 
where. Matt. 15: 35, 36. (10) We must offer prayer. 
John 17:11. How to pray. Matt. 6: 6, 9; also Luke 11: 
1, following which the Lord's Prayer was repeated hy the 
audience — closing by singing — "What a friend we have in 
Jesus." 

8 o'clock— PLATFORM MEETING. 
Conducted by Rev. Dr. I. Crook. 

Theme: "Sunday-School Machinery. " 

Rev. Dr. Crook made a few opening remarks, after 
which Prof. Fellows addressed the people at some length: 

There are those who seem to think that no machinery 
at all is necessary in the Sunday-school, inasmuch as the 
Spirit is the instru77ientality through which the work is 
performed, while there are others who may over estimate 
the value of these mechanical appliances, and thus destroy 
the spirituality of the school. Means and methods are 
needed in the Sunday-school as much as in the perform- 
ance of any secular labor. Machinery is necessary. The 
work is, and must ever be, in part dependent upon human 
instrumentality. The a7nount of machinery to be used, is 
the question which most interests us. It should depend 
upon the size of the school. A large school needs more 
machinery than a small one. Care should be taken not to 



120 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



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govern too much. We must govern in order to teach. 
We should not illustrate so much as to destroy the force 
of the truth sought to be impressed. After singing, 

Rev. Mr. Corwin delivered a short address upon this 
subject, of which a few thoughts are noted — 

There must be a plan and a purpose in all Sunday- 
school work. — Should aim to have the children develop 
strong Christian characters. — They must also be fitted as 
Christian workers. It requires adaptation to carry out 
these purposes and plans. Promptness is needed. The 
work must not be done without helps. There must be 
under-workers, so as to avoid unneccessary delay. — Must 
have piety. — Must have power in the management of the 
school. — Must have persistence and earnestness, as well as 
positiveness in the work. After singing, Dr. Crook re- 
quested the persons who had prepared questions, to for- 
ward them to the stand. 

QUESTIONS ON SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK. 

Answered by Prof. Townsend and Rev. J. R. 

Berry. 
ist Ques. Who should elect S. S. Superintendent? 

Ans. The officers and teachers of the school. — Would 
not include the scholars. 
2d Ques. How and when should collections be taken up 
in the school? 
Ans. Would recommend the envelope system, and 
take weekly collections. 
3d Ques. What is the relation of pastor to the Sabbath 
school ? 
Ans. That of loving supervisor. 
4th Ques. How can punctuality on the part of the teachers 
be secured? 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 121 

Ans. By making them feel that they damage the 
school by their tardiness. 
5th Ques. How can the attention of Sunday-school boys 
not inclined to study, be gained? 
Ans. By tact. 
6th Ques. How can the attendance of young men upon 
the pastor's class be secured, who seldom, or 
never, attend church? 
Ans. By going to them personally and showing an 
interest in their behalf. 
7th Ques. Are lady teachers best qualified for teaching 
boys and vice versa? 
Ans. Think that individual experiences will answer 
the question affirmatively. 
8th Ques. How many times should there be singing during 
one session of the school? 
Ans. Usually three times. At the opening, before 
the lesson-service, and at the close. 
9th Ques. How much can the pastor, who preaches three 
times each Sunday, do for his school? 
Ans. In general, but little, directly. Should do as 
much as possible, indirectly. 
10th Ques. What should be the teacher's great aim in 
teaching? 
Ans. To win the soul for Christ, 
nth Ques. Should charts, maps, black-boards and object- 
lessons be used in the Sabbath-school? 
Ahs. Yes. Would recommend, however, the pur- 
chase of some work, showing how to use 
them.* 
The services closed by singing " What shall the harvest 
be." 

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122 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

FOURTEENTH DAY— Tuesday, Sept. 4 th. 

FORENOON. 

Nothing occurred this morning until the session of the 
Normal Class. Everybody had such a religious feast last 
evening, that they all concluded to fast at the early hour of 
public worship. 

9:15. Normal Class Hour. 

Rev. J. H. Lozier, Teacher. 

Eleventh Chatauqua Lesson. 

The Bible Section. 

Topic: — Bible Geography.* 

1. Find the earliest division of the earth's surface. Gen. 

i. 10. 

2. The earliest countries mentioned in Genesis. Chaps. 

ii. and iv. 

3. The earliest river mentioned in Genesis and its heads. 

4. The earliest mountain mentioned. 

5. The earliest city mentioned. 

6. Divide the Bible world into four districts, and name 

the principal countries in each: — 

1. North and east of the Euphrates: Ar., Mes., EL, 

As., Me., Per., Ch., Ind. 

2. Between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean: 

Ar., Phe., Ca., Phil., Syr. 

3. South of the Mediterranean: Li., Eth., Eg. 

Note.— Use the Blackboard and a large map of "The Scripture World" and 
of l Palestine. 11 

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(Old Series). Price, two cents for the three. Hitchcock & Walden, Chicago, 111. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 12^ 

4. North of the Mediterranean: Ma., Gr., It., Sp., As. 

7. Name the principal Bible waters : — 

Ti., Eu., Bl., Ca., Per., Jo., Ja., R. S., Kis., Med., NL, 
Kid., Gal., Mer., Ah., Phar., ^g., Adr. 

8. Name the principal Bible mountains. 

Ar., Mo., GL, Si., Ho., Ne., Eb., Ger., Ta., Ca., He., 
Oph., Ac, Si., Bez., Ol. 

9. Name the thirteen tribal divisions of Canaan under 

Joshua : — 

1. Southern cluster: J. S. B. D. 

2. Central cluster: E. I. M. 

3. Northern cluster: Z. A. N. 

4. Eastern cluster: M-e G. R. 

10. Name the principal Bible cities and towns: — 

She., Ba., A., He., Ge., Be., So., Go., Bet., Me., Zo., 
Jer., Shi., Ka., Be., R.-G., Go., Gi., Ez.-G., EL, Jop. r 
Jer., Da., Tad., NL, Shu., Naz., Cap., Na., Ty., etc. 

11. a. m. Dr. Vincent conducted a general review of 
the Normal class lessons previously studied. During this 
study the Doctor gave a monemonical outline for Bible his- 
tory, which should divide it into periods easily remem- 
bered. The monemonical words are: 

ADAM, DAVID, CHRIST. 

1. Antediluluvian Period. 

2. Dispersion " 

3. Abrahamic " 

4. Mosaic " 

5. Dislodgement " 

(Of Canaanites.) 

6. Allotment " 
(Division of land among tribes.) 



124 S ' S ' ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



7. 


Vicegerent Period. 




(Judges.) 


8. 


Imperial K 




(Kings.) 


9- 


Division " 




(Separation into two kingdoms.) 


io. 


Captivity Period. 


II. 


Home again " 




(Return from captivity.) 


12. 


Reverses Period. 


I 3- 


Independent " 


•H- 


Savior " 


*5- 


Twelve. " 



THE TEACHER'S BIBLE AND HOW TO USE JT. 

Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D. 

i. The teacher should own a good Bible, well bound, 
with wide margin, maps, indices, references, etc. " The 
Teacher's Bible" (Amer. Tract Soc.) and the " Bagster's 
Bible" are the best. 

2. The teacher should secure the autographs of his pas- 
tor, superintendent, and pupils on one of the fly-leaves of 
his Bible. 

3. The teacher should take his Bible with him to the 
preaching service, the Sunday-school, and the week even- 
ing firayer-meeting. 

4. The teacher should resolve to make the Bible the 
rule and standard of his life. 

5 . He should read his Bible daily. 

[Open and read from it in the morning before he 
opens any other book or any paper.] 
6. He should put much of its precious contents in his 
memory. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 1 25 

7. He should " hide it in his heart" 

8. He should study it as a means of grace, remember- 
ing that the Spirit comes through the truth. 

9. He should wield it as " the sword of the Spirit" to 
bring souls into submission to Christ. 

10. He should never read it without prayer. 

11. He should think closely and wait for heavenly light 
upon the word as he reads it. 

.12. He should use it in the study of every Sabbath 
school lesson^ depending upon it more than upon any other 
help. 

AFTERNOON. 

I 130 O'CLOCK. ASSEMBLY CONVERSATION ON SUNDAY- 
SCHOOL WORK. 

Led by Dr. Vincent. 

1st Ques. — What is the best method of teaching a class 
of young people, some of whom have learned the lesson, 
and others are in total ignorance? 

Ans. — Encourage them to ask questions themselves. 

2d Ques. — Should a teacher, who is not a good talker, 
have charge of a class? 

Ans. — Yes, if he is a good teacher. 

3d Ques. — How many of the exercises of the last As- 
sembly Sabbath-school would it be advisable to practice in 
an ordinary school? 

Ans. — All as far as practicable — should close the doors 
during the opening service in any school. 

4th Ques. — Would you keep a record of punctuality and 
of recitations? 

Ans. — I would. 



126 S. S. ASSEMBLY OE THE NORTH-WEST. 

5th Ques. — Should the Superintendent always review 
the lesson at the end of each session? 

Ans. — The pastor should review the lesson, unless there 
is some person in the school that is better qualified. 

6th Ques. — Would you have the school recite the golden 
text in concert? 

Ans. — Would, indeed. 

7th Ques. — How long should the Sunday-school session 
continue? 

Ans. — An hour and one-half is a good average. 

8th Ques. — What class of teachers would be best for the 
young ladies' class? 

Ans. — Discreet, sensible, godly, skillful men or women. 

9th Ques. — What method should be used for teaching 
very young children? 

Ans. — Should organize a special class for such. 

10th Ques. — Should a Superintendent annoy classes by 
making changes and furnishing teachers after the study of 
the lesson has commenced? 

Ans. — No; a Sunday-school superintendent has no busi- 
ness to leave the platform after the study of the lesson has 
commenced. 

nth Ques. — Should a Sunday-school teacher be a class- 
leader with a large class? 

Ans. — Well, I would think so; would not give much 
for a Sunday-school teacher that was not a good class- 
leader. 

1 2th Ques. — How would you use charts, maps, black- 
boards and object lessons, in the average Sunday-school? 

Ans. — Should use them when needed, and at the time 
needed; use objects when they will serve the purpose bet- 
ter than black-board exercises — may overdo the object 
lesson. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. I 27 

13th Ques. — What can be done with skeptics, or other 
persons, who are constantly asking questions to engender 
debate? Is debate allowable in Sunday-schools? 

Ans. — No ; a certain class of people always want to get 
at a point. Let each one write out his arguments, and read 
them the next Sabbath. You will seldom be troubled by 
the written argument. 

14th Ques. — What plan can be adopted for teaching in- 
termediate classes? 

Ans. — Any way to make them ask and answer ques- 
tions; use incidents and illustrations freely. 

15th Ques. — If there was but one good teacher in the 
school, should she be assigned to the Bible or infant class? 

Ans. — Depends on her adaptation; should make the best 
use possible of the best teacher. 

16th Ques. — Should lesson leaves be allowed in the class, 
oris it preferable to leave them at home, and use the Bible? 

Ans. — Let every teacher do what seems best to him or 
her. Good thing to bring the Bible; but use any helps by 
which you can do the best work. 

17th Ques. — What do you think of Sunday-school exhi- 
bitions? 

Ans. — Don't believe in them, unless they consist of ex- 
ercises combining knowledge gained of the Bible, class- 
drill, conversation, etc. 

18th Ques. — Can a local class who have passed a satis- 
factory examination upon the Chautauqua Course receive 
an Assembly diploma, or merely a certificate? 

Ans. — They are entitled to the Chautauqua certificate, 
but not the diploma. 

19th Ques. — How would you dispose of the late comers 
at Sunday-school? 

Ans. Let them go into the visitor's class. Be strict but 



128 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

kind. They are prompt at day-school; why not be at 
Sunday-school? 

20th Ques. — Would you use primers and spelling-books 
with scholars who cannot read? 

Ans. No. They can be taught by the leaf cluster and 
picture-lesson paper. 

Could our Sabbath-schools be better named by calling 
them Bible schools? 

I like to call it the Church-school. 

Towards the close Dr. Vincent took occasion to remark 
that Sunday-school work had taken a new phase. Did 
not now think of children in connection with Sunday- 
schools. They are for the old as well as the young. Their 
object is Bible study, in order to spiritual edification and 
profit. 

4:15. Normal Class. 

Conducted by Rev. E. S. Williams, A. M., Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

TWELFTH CHATAUQUA LESSON. 
Prepared by J. H. Vincent, D. D. 

The Sabbath-school Section. 
Topic : How to Use the Co7tcor dance. 

1. The first Concordance of the New Testament was 
prepared by Thomas Gibson, London, 1535. 8vo. 

2. The first English Concordance of the whole Bible 
was by John Marbeck, organist of Windsor College, in the 
reign of Henry VIII., 1550. Folio. 

3. The greatest and best of the Concordances of the 
Bible is that of Alexander Cruden, a Scotchman. In 1737 






S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 1 29 

he dedicated his Concordance to the Queen. " On No- 
vember 1, 1770, he was found dead in his chamber in the 
attitude of jDrayer." 

4. The benefits of the Concordance. 

1. It is a guide to passages of Scripture of which one 
has but a vague idea. 

2. It renders it possible to make Scripture an interpreter 
of Scripture. 

3. It renders it possible to study the proper connection 
of a passage. 

4. It increases the power and authority of a passage by 
showing the corroborative passages. 

5. It gives new and important shades of meaning to a 
passage. 

5. How to use a Concordance. 

1. In the first readingof a lesson mark such words as 
you wish to examine in the Concordance. 

2. In the Concordance itself mark the word (with pen- 
cil or ink) which you have examined. 

3. In the Concordance also mark the texts, or portions 
of texts, you wish to examine more carefully. 

4. Carefully and frequently read together, for com- 
parison, the text itself and the parrallel you find in the 
Concordance. 

5. Note particularly which sacred writer makes use of 
a given word, and in what connection. 

6. Note the different meanings and applications of 
the same word. 

7. Find and examine sy?7onymous words, and see what 
light they throw upon a particular lesson. 

8. Study particular topics by the aid of the Concord- 
ance. 



I30 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

EVENING. 

7:30 o'clock. Services opened under the pavilion by 
singing, "Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide." Prayer was 
offered by Rev. J. B. Albrook. Remarks were made 
by Hon. R. H. Gilmore, in reference to the incorpora- 
tion of the S. S. Assembly of the Northwest, and the work 
in connection therewith. The articles of incorporation 
were adopted, and the following persons chosen as the 
Board of Managers : 

Rev. E. S. Williams, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Rev. Mr. Linfleld, Moline, 111. 
Hon. R. H. Gilmore, Cedar Rapids, la. 
Mr. G. B. Bradbury, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Rev. J. R. Berry, Waterloo, la. 
Rev. J. H. Lozier, Webster City, la. 
Rev. R. W. Keeler, Epworth, la. 
Hon. I. Garmore, Ft. Dodge, la. 
Col. E. Shaw, Clear Lake, La. 

Singing, " Not Half has ever been Told," from advance 
sheets of" Crystal Songs."* 

BLACKBOARD EXERCISE. 

" How Chalk Can Talk." 

By Rev. J. S. Ostrander, D. D. 

By way of introduction, Mr. Ostrander said that he came 
among us from an extended tour, during which he had at- 
tended a good many Sunday-school Assemblies, all of 

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S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. I3I 

which he found to be delightful and fit places for rest and 
recuperation. God is setting in motion a set of influences 
that, moving in every direction, will deluge the land with 
Bible study. Illustration is the link that connects what the 
teacher knows with the scholar's knowledge, by the means 
of which the scholar's mind is lifted to the plane of the 
teacher's mind. There are two kinds of illustration that 
can be used. 

1. When words only are used. 

2. Other objects than those that appeal only to the ear. 

The speaker described the power of drawing word pic- 
tures. Some persons possess this wonderful talent to such 
an extent that the living reality seems to stand before the 
auditor at their bidding. He spoke of the Bible as a pic- 
ture book from beginning to end. 

It abounds in objects, symbols, types, and figures, all 
illustrating the fact, that GooTs way of teaching the world 
is by the visible method. We do not need to have relics 
and mementoes from the lands of Bible times to illustrate 
the truths in connection therewith, but we can, with even 
a piece of charcoal, draw illustrations that will serve to 
explain and enforce a variety of them in an economical 
way. We should illustrate by every means within our 
reach — such as nature has provided — There is a wonderful 
power in illustration, and in seeing the thing done, as 
when the blackboard is used. 

Exact representations are not always necessary, as the 
imagination, of children, goes a great ways. They need not 
be elaborate. The child will make up its deficiencies. Every 
teacher can and should use the blackboard. The best use of 
blackboard in Sunday-school, is for presenting texts of the 
Scripture, or announcements of spiritual truths. One 
difficulty is in failing to center the mind upon some single 



I32 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

subject. A few words upon the blackboard at the com- 
mencement of the lesson, will tend to turn the mind in a 
desirable direction, and will impress the child's mind dur- 
ing the week to come. 

CHALK SERMON. 

Objects and the blackboard can be used to illustrate, 
expand and enforce texts of Scripture. Here the lecturer 
took several texts and preached practical and highly 
instructive as well as entertaining sermons from them. 
We would be glad to give them to our readers but they 
would require extra plates. Besides a more satisfactory 
course will be to send to Fairbanks & Co., or Hitchcock 
& Walden, Chicago for "Through the Eye to the Heart 
or Eye-teaching in the Sunday-school," by the Rev. W. F. 
Crafts, Price $1.50. 

OTHER USES OF THE BLACKBOARD. 

1. In the way of maps, pictures and diagrams. The 
best shape for this purpose is a rectangle twice as long as 
it is wide. The best material is black broad-cloth, for sale 
by the above firms at about $1.50 per yard. Three-fourths 
of a yard will answer all ordinary purposes. 

Many schools cannot afford a variety of maps, but a 
fresh one can be drawn every Sabbath which may bring 
with especial emphasis the scene of the lesson. 

2. To assist memory. 

3. To explain truth. 

4. To emphasize truth. 

5. To teach chronology. 

6. To impress the lesson's outline. 

7. To collect attentiou. 

8. To make announcements. 

9. To review the lesson. 

By all means give it a fair and faithful trial. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 1 33 



FIFTEENTH DAY— Wednesday, Sept. 5. 

FORENOON. 

6:40 Public Worship in the Pavilion was led by Rev. 
B. Blain, of Wells, Minn. " Sweet Hour of Prayer" was 
sung, and the first twelve verses of the 119th Psalm were 
read. The weather being a little unfavorable, the at- 
tendance was small, yet those present enjoyed the meet- 
ing very much. 

8:40. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION. 

Conducted by Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D. 

The class numbering over forty, assembled in the 
Pavilion with closed doors. Reporters of the press, as 
well as others, were carefully excluded while the class was 
subjected to a rigid written examination. After about two 
hours one of the gentlemen asked, " Can't a fellow study 
at home and pass an examination afterward." " Yes," 
said the Doctor, " but it won't do him any good here." 
"Well, I'll try again next year," was the rejoinder, as he 
vanished through the door. Pretty soon another, or two, 
came to the same conclusion. The fate of the remainder 
can be seen below. 

Names of Alumni of S. S. Assembly of the North- 
West. 1876. 



Miss Louie Flude, Hopkinton, Iowa. 
Rev. R. Wolfe. Fairbanks, " 

Mrs. O. D. Howies, Inland, " 

Mrs. Mary El'is, Raymond, " 

Miss E iza G. Bingham, Waterloo, " 
EstellaM. Virden, 
Miss Sarah McGraw, " " 

Miss Hattie Hankinson, " Vi 

Mrs. A. F. Townsend, " " 

S. E. Waterbury. Fayette " 

Mrs. S. E. Waterbury, Fayette, " 



Miss Minnie S. Lorbeer, Humboldt, la. 
Mrs. Charles A. Lorbeer, " " 

Mrs. S. C. W. Bowen, " " 

H. F. Martin, Ontario. " 

Willie H. Foster, Clinton, " 

L. Winsett, Montour, " 

Miss Ella S.Lyon. Grin nell, " 

M. M. Gilchrist, Clear Lake, " 

A. O.Abbott, 374 Dayton St. Chicago, 111. 
N. A. Trowbridge, Madelia, Minn. 
Rev. H.J. Crist, Austin, " 



134 S - S - ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 



1877. 



Rev. Will F. Barclay, Algona, Iowa. 

Eliza Macy, Spring-dale, 

Rev. Samuel W. Heald, McGregor, 

Hon. Harvey Potter, Jefferson, 

Mary L. Potter, " 

I. W. Myers, Hampton, 

S. H. Morris, West Branch, 

Willie H. Foster, Clinton, 

Rev. Reese Wolfe, Fairbank, 

Rev. C. M. Wheat, Laporte City. 

Cynthia Wicks, Humbolt, t; 

Rev. Bartley Blain, Wells, Minn- 

Samuel White, Osage, Iowa. 

Sarah Bockway, Concord, 

Ella E. Bingham, Waterloo, 

Sue W. Hethrington, Dubuque, 

Alice Hartsoug-h, Ft. Dodge, 

Charles A. Lorbeer, Humbolt, 

Catharine A. Ricker, Shellsburg, 

Rev. Wilbur Fisk, Freeborn, Minn. 



Rev. David Wolfe, Lowman, 
Almira J. Tucker, Nashua, 
Mrs. J. M. Merriman, Floyd, 
Rev. M. T. Smedley, Farley, 
Amelia A. Smedlev, " 

Rev. A.Jamison, Clear Lake, 
Anna B. Rich, West Branch, 
Rev. William McCready, Rolfe, 
Charles I. Lorbeer, Humbolt, 
Rev. F. C. Wolfe, Independence. 
Henrietta Lorbeer. Humbolt, 
Rev. D. Sheffer, Manchester, 
S. E. Waterbury, Fayette, 
Mrs. S. E. Waterbury, Fayette, 
Edward A. Snyder, Cedar Falls, 
Mary M. Pearson, Springdale, 
Josie Adams, Rutland, 
John T, Boylan, Point Pleasant, 
Ada E. Lozier, Webster City, 
Hattie J. Hankinson, Waterloo, 



111. 
Iowa . 



AFTERNOON. 

The Greene Bros., proprietors of a fleet of boats in the 
lake, having kindly placed them at the disposal of the As- 
sembly for a pleasure and fishing excursion, the afternoon 
was devoted to recreation, which was especially relished 
by the class who had foregone almost all that would 
divert them in any way from thorough mastery of the les- 
sons assigned them. Now that examination is over, free 
from care they can give loose rein to desire for enjoyment. 

EVENING. 

Lecture by Rev. J. S. Ostrander, D. D. 

Theme: " Scenes in the Orient." 

7:30 o'clock. During the interval preceding the lecture 
Capt. Merry sang, by request, " No Book is like the Bible. " 
Rev. Mr. Ostrander made a few introductory remarks, 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 1 35 

stating that he came before the people to illustrate the 
Bible — purposing to carry them to the land and scenes of 
Bible times. 

Mr. Ostrander, accompanied by a number of ladies and 
gentlemen, now appeared upon the platform, dressed in 
various styles of oriental costume. Salutations were first 
made by the gentlemen, each one saluting according to the 
peculiar custom of his country. The ladies, in turn, seemed 
to illy appreciate their advantages, by seeking to hide even 
the small portion of the face exposed to public view, ac- 
cording to the prevailing custom — a practical lesson for the 
present day. The speaker, however, called attention to 
the fact that the injunction of the Apostles against "the 
putting on of gold and costly apparel" was undoubtedly 
written in view of their habits of dress and excessive orna- 
mentation, often covering the whole arm with rings, and 
the robe with gold, pearl or silver spangles. The speaker 
next illustrated the manner of putting on and off the girdle, 
stating its various uses, etc. The next illustration was 
" The Burden Bearers," represented by several young 
ladies in costume. The speaker referred to the relations 
sustained by Christ to these "burden bearers," as being one 
of tenderness and solicitude — " Come unto me," etc. The 
next scene represented several persons in the various atti- 
tudes of prayer — the call having preceded it — altogether 
being peculiarly impressive. The usual rustle in the audi- 
ence was hushed, and an intense silence prevailed, lending 
an additional solemnity to the occasion. 

The manner of " treading the wine press" was next 
illustrated, in which the husbandman was assisted by his 
friends and neighbors. The speaker called attention to the 
words of Christ, when he spoke of " treading the wine 
press alone" 



I36 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

Next followed a scene at school, in which the rela- 
tive positions and duties of school-master and teacher 
were illustrated. The speaker made reference to that por- 
tion of Scripture where the law is spoken of as "the 
school-master to bring us to Christ" — the Teacher. 

The speaker next introduced the magi or magians of 
those days, showing their weakness and utter failure to 
fulfil their promises on certain noted occasions. Next fol- 
lowed the supper scene, showing the manner of receiving 
and entertaining invited guests. 

The closing illustration was the meeting of the bride- 
groom, at midnight, preceding the marriage ceremony. 
The ladies and gentlemen appeared in costume, with the 
various instruments of music, lamps, etc., incident to such 
an occasion, which, together with the speaker's remarks 
formed one of the most pleasing parts of the lecture. 

PLATFORM MEETING. 

RESOLUTIONS, PARTING WORDS, ETC. 

By request, Hon. R. H. Gilmore assumed the chair, and 
the following resolutions, offered by Rev. J. H. Lozier, 
were unanimously adopted: 

RESOLUTIONS. 

1st. Resolved, That we recognize with high apprecia- 
tion, the labors of our Chairman, Bro. Gilmore, and of 
his coadjutois, Bros. Mason, Albrook, and Stearns — Sec- 
retaries of this Assembly. 

2d. Resolved, That to Rev. J. R. Berry, more than 
any other man, are we indebted for the magnificent pro- 
gramme, afforded on this occasion. His abundant services 
and fervent zeal, for this Assembly, are above all praise. 



S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. I37 

3d. Resolved, That we profoundly thank Capt. J. F. 
Merry, Prof. I. H. Bunn, and their corps of musicians and 
singers, for one of the most delightful portions of this 
elegant u Feast of Tabernacles." 

4th* Resolved, Thanks are specially due to the manage- 
ment of the C. M. & St. P. R. R., for their recent efforts 
in rectifying all matters affecting the comfort and conven- 
ience of attendants upon this Assemhly and for the assur- 
ances, by them given, of better accommodations in the 
future, and especially for the accommodations afforded in 
the way of special trains, for the convenience of those re- 
turning from this Assembly. 

5th. Resolved, That we tender our most cordial thanks 
to Mr. R. F. Hull, of Davenport, Iowa, general agent,for the 
use of the elegant "Weber Grand Piano," and for the fine 
ic Needham Silver Tongue Organs" used during the meet- 
ings of this Assembly, and that to Mr. Holmes, his special 
agent, we are especially indebted for the many courtesies 
extended to us in behalf of this worthy representative of 
the manufacturers of some of the best musical instruments 
known to the trade. 

6th, and last but not least, Resolved, That we hail with 
joy and hearty appreciation the coming of Dr. J. H. Vin- 
cent, M. C. Hazard, Drs. Newman, Winchell, Butler, Cor- 
win, Burr, Magoun, Crook, Ostrander, Burns and Aitchin- 
son, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Aldrich,and others, who have done 
so much to make this Assembly a grand success. 

Rev. J. R. Berry responded in a few words, and closed 
by saying that he desired to thank the people for the inter- 
est manifested in the success of this Assembly, and as he 
retired from these labors, he carried with him the most 
pleasant memories of his life. 

Rev. Dr. Vincent made a few closing remarks, in which 
he stated that the Clear Lake Sunday-school Association 
had become a permanent organization, and expressed his 
convictions that it would continue in the future as a source 



I38 S. S. ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTH-WEST. 

of Biblical instruction, and a power in the church. He 
spoke of the labor which had been bestowed upon the ex- 
amination of papers pertaining to the Normal Class, by 
Prof. Townsend and himself, as consuming a large part 
of the afternoon. That he had been amply rewarded for 
all his labors, by the pleasure he had experienced during 
the four hours labor upon the platform, in conducting the 
examination in the forenoon, and by seeing the interest 
taken by the class, which averaged better than any he had 
ever examined. That many of those who underwent the 
examination had said to him that they intended to do better 
work in the future, than they had ever done before. He 
spoke of the benefits of such labor; that he had unbounded 
confidence in the future of Clear Lake; that our work con- 
sists in laboring for others; that the person who works for 
the good of souls, is on the highway to holiness and reward. 
In conclusion, he exhorted his t; fellow laborers" to do their 
work as best they could, in anticipation of a hearty greet- 
ing at the gates of the Celestial City. Sing "Watching 
and Waiting for Me," followed by the Doxology and bene- 
diction by Dr. Vincent. 

Thus closed the work of one of the most profitable meet- 
ings of Sunday-school workers ever held in the West. 



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"THE OBSERVER" OFFICE, 

CLEAR LAKE, IOWA. 
^~ Plain and Ornamental Job Work done on Short Notice. Si 

CALLINC CARDS A SPECIALTY. 

Mclaughlin & Woodstock, 

DEALERS IN 

Staple and Fancy Groceries, 

Crockery, Queensware, 

GKE^ZEZEZlST ^ItTID Di?,IBD IFIR/UTTS. 
North Side of Main Street, - Clear Lake, Iowa; 

And in Commercial Row, on the Camp Ground. 

J". ZEC. BOEYB, 

tfaaufestars? af Wageni, Gtstlagei, Sleighs ani Glitters, 

Dealer in all kinds of Wagon Materials. 
JToxirtli Street, c lear Lake, - Iowa. 

O. C. SWJSZJT'S, 
LIVERY AND SALE STABLE, 

First Class Rigs on short notice, at prices to suit the times. 

Office at Lake House, C ear Lake, - - Iowa. 

WOODFORD & WHEELER, 

DEALERS IN 

LUMBER. LATH. SHI1GLES. 

Pickets, Sash Doars, Blinds, Mouldings, Square Timber, k 

Office on Fourth Street, - Clear Lalce, Iowa. 
W. C. TOMPKINS, Agent. 



6ENTSJWANTED. 

FOR PARTICULARS ADDRESS 

ilson Sewing Machine Company, 

829 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY, 

HEW ORLEANS, LA, CHICAGO, ILLS., 

OR SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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